The Uttar Pradesh Police had issued a list of dos and don’ts in August last year, almost three months after a mother and daughter were gangraped along the national highway in Bulandshahr.
Patrolling fizzles out
The site of the crime is not very far from where the Jewar gang-rape was reported on Thursday.
Incidentally, the gang-rape last year had led to national outrage, leading the then Samajwadi Party government to take a series of steps to counter the widespread condemnation of the deteriorating law and order situation in the State.
The government had enhanced patrolling on the highway immediately after the incident, which fizzled out soon after.
Investigation into the Bulandshahr case, meanwhile, was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
High crime rate
More than an year on, the situation doesn’t seem to have improved. Uttar Pradesh, which has the longest network of highways in the country, still reports a substantially high crime rate on these roads.
According to data from 2014, as many as 80% of the crimes recorded on highways in the country were from U.P.
