The opposition Congress targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the gang-rape incident and added the crime has exposed the sorry state of law and order situation in Madhya Pradesh.
SIDHI — A 20-year-old Dalit woman, who had gone out with her fiance in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district, was allegedly raped by four men who also assaulted her male partner, said a police official on Wednesday.
Four persons were involved in the gang-rape and three of them have been arrested, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Arvind Srivastava told PTI.
Five police teams have been deployed to nab the absconding accused, he informed, PTI reported.
He said the victim, a resident of an area under Churhat police station limits, had gone out with her fiance on Tuesday.
After parking their motorcycle on the roadside near Kathoutha, they went to a nearby hill.
Four men roaming in the area spotted the couple.
They beat up the woman’s fiance and chased him away, said the police officer.
“After this, the accused took turns to rape the woman,” Srivastava stated.
The official said after escaping from the clutches of the accused, the woman contacted her fiance and both of them reached the Semaria police station where they narrated the horrific incident to cops.
The police immediately registered a case on the duo’s complaint and sent them to a community health centre in Semaria for treatment, said the ASP.
The opposition Congress targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the gang-rape incident and added the crime has exposed the sorry state of law and order situation in Madhya Pradesh.
State Congress president Jitu Patwari said the shameful incident tarnishes the entire humanity and also highlights the ‘horrific state’ of law and order.
“In the last three years alone, 7,418 incidents of rape of Dalit and tribal women, 338 gang-rapes and 558 murders have been registered in Madhya Pradesh. On an average, seven Dalit or tribal daughters are becoming victims of this cruelty every day. These figures prove the failure of the BJP government,” the former minister maintained.
Patwari alleged that due to inaction on part of the BJP government, crimes have increased in the state and victims are not getting justice.
