The gang rape of a 14-year-old girl allegedly by two constables in a police station on New Year’s Eve has brought Badaun district back in the news again for the wrong reasons.
The victim’s mother said the accused policemen, Vir Pal Singh Yadav and Avnish Yadav, took the girl away in a car and raped her in a room in the Musajhag police station.
A senior official said the policemen had been suspended and the process to dismiss them from service initiated. Station House Officer Ram Lakhan Singh has been suspended from service.
Inspector-General of Police (Law and Order) A. Satish Ganesh told presspersons that the girl’s mother, in her complaint filed on Thursday alleged that the two constables took away her daughter when she was standing outside her house.
The girl underwent a medical examination in the district hospital. “Preliminary reports point to sexual assault,” he said.
The State government has ordered an inquiry.
