Minor dalit lady molested in Pilibhit; 5 booked | Lucknow Information
PILIBHIT: 5 males had been booked on Wednesday for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old dalit lady and making an attempt to strip her after barging into her home in UP’s Pilibhit district.
The accused additionally thrashed the lady’s 18-year-old brother when he tried to assist her.
An FIR was lodged towards the boys, all between 18 years and 20 years, on the orders of the officer in-charge of Tehsil Diwas, a day specified by the UP authorities to redress public grievances on the district degree.
The incident came about on the night of November 15 however Sungarhi police station allegedly declined to lodge an FIR. The brother filed a recent grievance throughout Tehsil Diwas on November 18.
The complainant said that the accused knocked on their door and when his sister opened it, they molested her and tried to strip her. Listening to her screams, he rushed to her rescue however was hit on the top with an iron bar. When he fell down, the accused continued to kick him brutally, he alleged.
He approached police the identical day with a written grievance however they despatched him for a medical examination with out lodging an FIR. Inspired by police inaction and to show him a lesson for going to the cops, the accused entered his home once more on November 17 carrying weapons. They vandalised his home and beat him and his sister, the complainant said.
SHO Sanjeev Shukla mentioned the 5 accused, who lived within the sufferer’s neighbourhood, had been booked beneath IPC sections 147 (rioting), 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence committed in prosecution of frequent object), 354 (use of felony pressure to a lady desiring to outrage her modesty), 354 B (use of felony pressure to a lady with intent to disrobe her), 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 427 (committing mischief and thereby inflicting loss or harm to the quantity of Rs 50 or upwards) and sections of the scheduled caste and tribes Act. They’re but to be arrested, he added.
