Kanpur: A rape accused, who was brutally thrashed after being allegedly caught by the villagers in Sachendi area of the district on Saturday, died at a temporary jail in Chaubeypur on Sunday.
On Friday night, one Subodh Bajpayee had allegedly raped a woman when she had gone to nearby fields.
Based on the information provided by the survivor, the villagers allegedly caught hold of the accused on Saturday morning from near Sachendi’s Kukraha railway crossing and assaulted him brutally.
The police reached the spot, and took Subodh into custody. After lodging an FIR, he was sent to the temporary jail in Chaubeypur, where his condition deteriorated and he died on Sunday. The body was sent for postmortem examination. “The autopsy will establish whether the accused died of internal injuries due to severe beating,” said SP rural Brijesh Kumar Srivastava.
The SP said, both the woman and the accused were residents of the same village. “On Friday night, the woman had gone to the nearby fields, when Subodh allegedly waylaid her and raped her. The woman returned home and narrated the ordeal to her family members after which an FIR was lodged at Sachendi police station. Meanwhile, the villagers continued their hunt for the accused. On Saturday morning, they caught hold of him and handed him to the local police after beating him black and blue.”
“We have launched an investigation to ascertain the actual cause of Subodh’s death,” the SP said.
Family of the accused has demanded a fair probe into the incident and stringent actions against the guilty villagers.