PILIBHIT: Over nine months after a woman, aged 42, was killed and hastily cremated by a college clerk, who was allegedly blackmailing and sexually assaulting her for the last over 21 years, a court in Pilibhit has directed local police to book the accused and his two aides.
According to the elderly mother of the woman, “I kept on pursuing the case. In the last nine months I went to the police station several times and also met senior officers. But they refused to register an FIR, which forced me to approach the court in July.”
The mother, also the complainant in the case, said that it all started over 21 years ago when her daughter, then 21, was a postgraduate student at a degree college.
“The accused, Ramesh Singh, was a clerk in the college. He had a brief affair with my daughter. During this, he took objectionable videos and photos. When she left college and tried to move on, he started blackmailing and exploiting her. A few years later, when she got married, Ramesh contacted her husband and told him about the affair. It led to divorce. She couldn’t lead a peaceful life,” she said in the complaint filed in the chief judicial magistrate on July 8.
The parents of the woman had taken a house in Pilibhit when she was still in college.
“After her father’s death, Ramesh started coming to the home quite often. I couldn’t say a thing. He used to be accompanied by two friends, Chandra Shekhar and Dilip Singh. On March 12, when I was away for some work, they killed my daughter and cremated the body in my absence. They also took possession of all the jewellery and occupied upper floors of the house,” she wrote in the complaint.
Station house officer (SHO) of Pilibhit’s Sungarhi police station, Atar Singh, said, “The three accused were booked under section 302 (murder) of IPC. They will be arrested soon.”