UP: Police probe if Budaun girl’s kin ‘pressured her after rape’

According to the family, the girl’s brother was asked to return and he, along with a cousin, started looking for her. They found her at 4 am, unconscious in a primary school, they claimed.

“Her body was covered in bruises. When she regained consciousness, she identified one of the perpetrators and told us she had been raped by all three men,” her brother alleged. A police complaint was lodged against one named person and two unidentified men. The family claimed that they received threats from the named accused’s family after the incident.

“She wouldn’t eat or talk to us after the incident; we were worried about her. She must have been troubled about her honour. On the night of August 22, she was sleeping next to me but when I woke up at around 4-5 am, she was not there. I found her hanging in a room,” her mother claimed.

However, police sources claimed they had recorded evidence of the girl saying she had been in touch with the main accused — a father of four — before the incident.

Police sources also claimed she had told them that the bruises had been inflicted by a family member.

While police claimed a medical examination of the complainant did not reveal injury to her genitals or internal injury, they added that the accused had admitted to having sexual relations with her — which is a criminal offense.

“We have registered the family’s complaint and arrested the named accused. Post-mortem report confirms the girl died of hanging; we are investigating the circumstances of the hanging,” said SP Budaun Ashok Kumar.