A 14-year-old girl was set on fire in Meerut’s Sardhana town three days ago, she was admitted to hospital with 60 per cent burn injuries. Local BJP MLA Sangeet Som and party MP Sanjeev Baliyan visited to the hospital to meet the girl and her family, they also assured the family that she would be taken to Delhi for better treatment.
Police said some local boys used to stalk the victim when she used to go tuitions. Rajvansh Bagdi allegedly gave girl a mobile phone on August 17 he said that he would call her around midnight. The girl, who stopped going to her tuitions by now, told her father about the phone. When the boy Rajvansh called to the phone, the girl’s father told him to stop calling and harassing his daughter.
Allegedly, on the next day the father of the victim spoke to Rajvansh’s family and asked the parents to talk to their son, said police. As per the FIR lodged by the girl’s grandfather, when the father of the victim had gone to meet Rajvansh’s family, four men came into the house. “They poured kerosene on her and set her afire. Before fleeing, the intruders warned us of dire consequences if we went to the police,” said the victim’s grandfather.
The FIR was against six people. Rajvansh Bagdi and his father Devendra were arrested, while Rohit Saini, Gajraj Saini, Aman and Deepak are missing. “We have put several teams on the job to arrest the culprits soon and we have got definite inputs about their possible hideouts,” said Sardhana police station in charge Dileep Singh.
“The police has been found lacking in its approach. We will launch an intense agitation if all culprits are not arrested soon. They should not only be arrested but hanged for their inhuman act,” said the chief of Rajput Uthan Sabha, Ajay Som, Rajput Uthan Sabha activists also protested at the tehsil headquarters on Monday.
“I have asked the police station in-charge to take quick action. Our government is committed to ensure total safety of girls and women and we will take all possible measures to ensure speedy justice to the family. We will ensure that the victim should get the best medical treatment,” Local BJP MLA Sangeet Som told The Indian Express over telephone.