Lucknow: Under attack from several quarters, the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh on today ordered a probe into the alleged gang-rape and murder of a 25-year-old woman whose badly mutilated body was found at the outskirts of the state capital yesterday.
The autopsy report of victim, whose badly mutilated body was found yesterday from a school in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow, will be handed over to the concerned authorities today. According to latest reports; Additional Director General of Police Sutapa Sanyal and her team will investigate the heinous crime.
The decision to this effect was taken following a high-level meeting called by the state’s Chief Secretary, Alok Ranjan, which was attended by Principal Secretary Home, the Director General of Police among other top officials this morning.
The victim, who has now been identified, was an employee of the PGI hospital located in the capital. After taking note of media reports in Lucknow rape case, the state government has suspended Inspector Kamruddin and Sub Inspector Munni Lal of the Mohanlalganj Police Station for negligence.
Meanwhile, a panel of six doctors, which examined the body, has reportedly confirmed laceration in anal and vaginal areas. The panel, which includes forensic experts and a female doctor, also noted a total of 12 injuries, abrasions and contusions on the corpse with maximum severity doled out below abdomen.
The police claimed that she was killed last night at the government-run school in the city’s Bahadurkheda area, where there had been tight security for Clinton’s visit. The woman was allegedly stripped and stabbed several times. There were stab wounds even on her private parts, the police said after preliminary examination of the body.
The case reminds us of the horrific gang-rape and brutal torture of a young paramedical student by a group of six men in a moving car in the national capital in December 2012.
A spurt in gang-rapes and crimes against women in the Samajwadi Party-ruled state has ben a major cause of embarrassment for the Akhilesh Yadav government.
In May, two minor Dalit sisters’ dead bodies were found hanging from a tree in the Badaun district. The girls who were cousins, were allegedly gang-raped, beaten and hanged alive
Bureau Report
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