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Police have raised security for the family of a teenage Dalit gangrape victim after a local panchayat met on Sunday and purportedly threatened the family with dire consequences unless they withdrew the case.
The panchayat reportedly also asked the family to leave the village — Nangla Mandaur, under Daruala police station of Meerut district. No member from the 15-year-old victim’s family had attended the panchayat; they were “informed” later, it is learnt.
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Circle Officer Arvind Kumar told The Indian Express on Monday that security has been provided to the family in view of the threat.
Ashwani Jatav, the district chief of the Bhujan Samaj Party who has reached the village and met the victim’s family, said, “I have met the Circle Officer and asked him to ensure security for the family in view of the threat by the panchayat. I will also meet the SSP in this connection.”
The girl’s father is a contract labourer, and the family lives in abject poverty. The teen was abducted last Wednesday allegedly by Bobby, Adesh and two others when she had gone to the fields to relieve herself. They allegedly kept injecting her with sedatives and raped her multiple times over the next three days.
The girl’s family members and a few villagers found her on Friday in one of the conical huts made of cowdung cakes in villages. Her hands and feet reportedly tied, she was still under sedatives when rescued, the family has said in its complaint.
Two persons, one Adesh Kumar and his nephew Bobby, have been arrested in this connection, Daurala police station-in-charge Parashuram Yadav said, adding that raids are being conducted to nab the two other accused who are still on the run.
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