A man holds a placard after the death of a rape victim in UP. (Reuters)
The doctor told reporters on Friday that one of the defendants visited his clinic to take him home to treat the victim, introducing her as a relative around 5 p.m. Tuesday, adding that he became suspicious when saw the victim lying alone. in a sofa.
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A key witness has appeared in the case of the alleged gang rape of a 22-year-old Dalit woman from the Balrampur district, who later succumbed to her injuries.
He is a local doctor, whom the two defendants first called to treat the victim in a room behind a grocery store run by one of the defendants in a nearby market.
The doctor told reporters on Friday that one of the defendants visited his clinic to take him home to treat the victim, introducing her as a relative around 5 p.m. Tuesday.
The doctor said he became suspicious when he saw the victim lying alone on a sofa.
“I immediately returned, saying that I would treat her only in the presence of her family members and began to ask her for her father’s name and contact number. The young men told me that they would take the victim to the clinic with her father for the treatment, but they didn’t. Later, I found out that she had died, “he said.
The victim’s mother had previously alleged that some young men abducted her when she was returning home from university and took her to a room where she was raped and abused.
The incident occurred on Tuesday when the woman had gone to enter a university near her village but did not return home until late at night, said Balrampur Police Superintendent (SP) Dev Ranjan Verma.
The woman later returned in a rickshaw with a glucose dropper inserted into her hand as family members searched for her.
Verma said family members said the woman’s condition was not good, so they took her to a nearby hospital and then to the Balrampur district hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.
The woman’s family alleged that the woman’s hands and legs were fractured, but police officers stated that no such injuries were confirmed on post-mortem examination.
The two defendants were detained after an FIR was registered as a result of a complaint filed by the victim’s brother. The defendants were registered under sections 376-D and 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for gang rape and murder, respectively.
District Magistrate Krishna Karunesh and Police Superintendent Dev Ranjan Verma assured relatives that the case will be sent to fast track court and the strictest measures will be taken against the accused.
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