This story is from October 12, 2021

Uttar Pradesh: Girl alleges rape by father, SP, BSP leaders in Lalitpur

A 17-year-old girl in UP’s Lalitpur district lodged a police complaint on Tuesday against 28 persons, including her father and some Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) functionaries along with some of her close relatives, of raping her for the past several years.
Uttar Pradesh: Girl alleges rape by father, SP, BSP leaders in Lalitpur
The minor girl has also alleged that at one point, her uncles had tried to sell her off but could not succeed.
JHANSI: A 17-year-old girl in UP’s Lalitpur district lodged a police complaint on Tuesday against 28 persons, including her father and some Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) functionaries along with some of her close relatives, accusing them of raping her for the past several years.
Based on her complaint, Lalitpur police have filed a first information report (FIR) against 28 persons, including the father of the girl, SP district president Tilak Yadav, SP city president Rajesh Jain Jojhiya, BSP district president Deepak Ahirwar and others under sections 354 (outraging modesty), 376-D (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), and other sections of the IPC and Section 5/6 of POCSO Act.

As per the complaint, the girl has alleged that when she was in class 6, her father tried to lure her into a physical relationship by showing her obscene films but she didn’t oblige. Later, her father bought her new clothes and took her for a ride on a motorbike on the pretext of teaching her how to drive. He took her to a desolated farm and raped her while warning her to keep quiet or he would kill her mother.
Days later, he took her to a hotel on the way back from her school after making her eat some snacks, probably laced with sedatives. He handed her over to a woman, who made her sit alone inside a room and left. After sometime a man entered the room while she fell unconscious. When she regained consciousness, her clothes and shoes were not in the proper place and she was feeling a severe stomach ache.
Later, all this continued with each time a new man raping her in hotel rooms in an inhuman manner. All along she was asked to keep mum or face dire consequences.
She further said in her complaint that after a few days, one Tilak Yadav came and raped her in such an inhuman manner as if he wanted to take some revenge. When she objected, Tilak said that it was her father who had brought her to him and that after a few days her mother is also going to come here. With Tilak, his relatives and friends also raped her continuously.

The girl has further alleged that on one such occasion when she had visited her maternal uncle’s house, there too she was raped by four of her uncles along with cousins. She was helped by her grandmother, who tried to hush up the incident.
She has also alleged that at one point her uncles had tried to sell her off but could not succeed.
SP Lalitpur Nikhil Pathak told TOI on Tuesday: “It is a very sensitive case and we are taking it seriously. The medical examination of the victim has been performed and her statement has also been recorded under section 161. On Wednesday, her statement will be recorded in front of a magistrate under section 164 after which further action will be taken.”
“We are interrogating the father of the victim. He is a truck operator and it seems that he was soliciting his minor daughter,” he added.
Meanwhile SP district president Tilak Yadav has issued a statement on social media, claiming that he and his brothers were being falsely implicated in the case.
Others named in the FIR are Raju Yadav, Mahendra Yadav, Arvind Yadav, Prabodh Tiwari, Sonu Samaiya, Mahendra Dubey, Niraj Tiwari, Mahendra Singhai, Komalkant Singhai, Shayama, Pappu, Munna, Akash, Mahak, Bunty, Neetu, Sharad, Manju and some unknown persons.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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