Uttar Pradesh: Teacher Gang-Raped At Gunpoint Near Highway

Lucknow: Just days after a woman and her teen daughter were gang-raped near a highway in Uttar Pradesh, a teacher was kidnapped and allegedly raped at gunpoint in Bareilly by three men who also filmed the assault.

The woman has told the police that she was walking to school on Tuesday when a car stopped and three men dragged her inside. The men raped her in the moving car and dumped her in a field near the highway, she has alleged. The men allegedly threatened to post a mobile video of the assault on social media if she reported the incident.

“We are investigating the case and hope to arrest the accused soon,” said a police officer.
The police officer in charge of the area, Rajesh Singh, has been suspended. A team went with the woman last evening and gathered evidence from the spot where she was assaulted.

The Uttar Pradesh police is still looking for a group of men who waylaid a car on the highway near Bulandshahr on Friday, tied up the men of a family and gang-raped a 35-year-old woman and her 14-year-old daughter.

Facing all round condemnation on lawlessness in the state, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav ordered the police to round up all the accused within 24 hours but that deadline has passed with only three arrests.

The cab driver whose wife and daughter were raped told the media that the family would commit suicide if the attackers are not caught and punished within three months.