Murdered rape victim’s family,locals block GT Road in Arail

Kanpur: Angry over the incident wherein a dairy operator allegedly raped and threw to death a teenage girl working as his personal secretary from the tenth floor of of an apartment in Kalyanpur, the family members and locals along with the body of the deceased on Thursday blocked the GT Road in Araul area of Bilhaur, forcing police to use mild force to disperse them.
The local activists, indulged in stone pelting and demanded financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh to the family of the deceased and the death penalty for the accused dairy worker.
As soon as the GT Road was blocked, there was a long queue of vehicles on both sides.
On being informed, force of four police stations rushed to the spot, the SDM Billhaur and tehsildar also reached the spot and assured the victim’s family members and relatives of forwarding their demands of necessary compensation and death penalty to the accused to concerned authorities. The protesters, however, refused to lift the dead body from the GT Road, and demanded to call a senior officer on the spot.
When the police resorted to force, the crowd pelted stones. This led to panic and a chaos type of situation occurred.
The girl’s family, originally a resident of a village in Bilhaur, lives in a rented house in a locality in the city. The girl, who was employed as a personal secretary of a dairy operator, on Tuesday evening died after falling from the tenth floor of an apartment in Kalyanpur.
During the investigation, it came to fore that the girl was thrown from the tenth floor after being raped by a dairy trader. Subsequently, the police arrested the accused after registering a case on the basis of the complaint of the girl’s sister. After the post-mortem on Wednesday night, the relatives had brought the girl’s body to the native village.
On Thursday morning, the relatives along with the villagers and local activists started a sit-in protest by placing the dead body on GT Road in Araul in Bilhaur.
The girl’s sister demanded the death penalty to the accused and a government job and financial assistance of Rs 50 lakh to a member of the family. On information, CO Rajesh Kumar reached the spot along with the force and PAC of the four police stations of the circle.
SDM Gulab Chandra Agrahari and tehsildar Laxminarayan Bajpai tried convincing the relatives and villagers by talking to them, but the villagers were adamant on calling the senior officer on the spot and fulfilling the demands immediately. They refused to remove the body from GT Road.
Due to the sit-in demonstration, a queue of vehicles about two kms was formed on both sides of the GT Road. The SDM said that efforts are being made to convince the relatives and the villagers. The demands have been conveyed to the higher authorities.