An Islamist who used to stalk a class 10 girl student gang raped her with accomplice after she refused to convert to Islam. On August 4, the police detained as many as three accused in Uttar Pradesh’s Deoria. They have all been booked under charges of rape and Anti-Conversion Law.
Following the incident, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered at the Tarkulwan police station on August 4. The police also arrested the culprits involved in the case, however, the probe is underway.
The Station House Officer (SHO) Tarkulwan, Dinesh Mishra told the media that, “on August 1, the minor was on her way to school when three miscreants took her to sugarcane field and gang raped her.”
He added, based on her complaint the accused who belong to the nearby village have been booked under relevant charges.
The victim’s mother told police that out of three accused one of them was stalking her daughter and that all of them tried converting the minor to Islam. They also filmed the act and threatened the minor of sharing it on social media before leaving.
Disturbingly, the victim’s family has also reported that the accused posted the video on social media. However, no such video evidence has been discovered thus far, according to the SHO.
She reached home and told everything to her mother. Later, they rushed to the police station, where a complaint was registered. Following the woman’s complaint, the police registered an FIR against Wazeer, Firoz and Noor-e-Nazar.
As per the victim’s mother, the accused men have been stalking her daughter for the past one month, and they did this because she refused to accept their proposal and Islam.
Similar case from the past
In a similar case, a class 10 student accused three of her teachers and the principal of constantly raping her, against nude pictures and videos. She alleged that the principal gave her contraceptive pills regularly. As of now, police booked three teachers, except the principal of the school.
The accused men have been identified as Moin, Aditya, and principal Rakesh Pratap Singh.
Notably, on July 26, the police registered an FIR (number–77/2023) at Manikpur police station against a contractual teacher, Mohammad Irashd. He was booked under charges of rape and the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offense) Act. The FIR was registered based on the minor’s statement. She named the teacher as the accused and claimed that she was forced to stay back in school for extra classes. In the name of those classes, the teacher used to touch her inappropriately and made videos of the same. Whenever she raised an alarm about the incident, she was silenced with threats of making those videos viral on social media.
The victim’s mother, however, alleged that her daughter has been gang raped and that too for the past five months, not just by the teachers but by the principal of the school as well. They made some serious allegations against the principal.
The victim told media, “For the past 4-5 months, Irshad and Moin, Aditya and Principal Sir kept on doing wrong things with me. They used to threaten me saying they can get my name cut from the school if I protested. Fearing this, I did not tell my family about this before.”
Five days after the FIR was lodged, i.e. on July 30, 2023, the police arrested 3 teachers of the school and a relative of the victim (the aunt’s son) Om Prakash. Om Prakash was arrested on the basis of call details between him and the victim.
The victim’s father says, “Out of the 4 people arrested by the police, 2 people have been caught falsely. Our nephew was also picked up by the police on July 29. He has been forcibly made an accused in this case whereas he is innocent. Whereas Aditya who has been caught is some other person. The real accused Aditya, is still absconding.”
