The daddy of a gangrape sufferer died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Hamirpur district on Wednesday, police stated.
The suicide of the 45-year-old man got here days after his daughter and niece additionally died by suicide after being allegedly gang-raped at a brick kiln in Kanpur’s Ghatampur space.
The members of the family alleged that the minor girls were gang-raped after being forced to consume liquor. All three accused have been arrested by the Kanpur Police beneath a number of sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Based on the members of the family, the daddy was beneath stress to withdraw the grievance within the gangrape case. His physique was discovered hanging from a tree late on Wednesday, about two km from his home.
Following the incident, native police reached the spot and despatched the physique for autopsy.
Talking to the media, Hamirpur’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Deeksha Sharma confirmed the suicide, saying the rationale behind the intense step was not but identified.
“…After receiving a grievance from the members of the family, motion will probably be taken within the case in accordance with the legislation,” SP Sharma stated in a pre-recorded video.
Congress Basic Secretary Prinkaya Gandhi launched a scathing assault on the Uttar Pradesh authorities in a put up on X.
“Two minor women, victims of gang rape, dedicated suicide in Kanpur. Now the daddy of these women has additionally dedicated suicide. It’s alleged that stress was being placed on the sufferer’s household to compromise. In Uttar Pradesh, if victimised women and girls ask for justice, it has change into a rule to destroy their households. From Unnao, Hathras to Kanpur – wherever girls have been tortured, their households have been destroyed. Being a girl has change into a criminal offense on this jungle raj the place there isn’t any such factor as legislation left,” she stated in her put up which was in Hindi.
“In spite of everything, what ought to crores of ladies of the state do, the place ought to they go?” she added.
(With Inouts from Nahid Ansari in Hamirpur)