[ZESTCaste] Threatened by accused’s father, Dalit rape victim commits suicide

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Threatened by accused's father, Dalit rape victim commits suicide

Express News Service Posted online: Thu Feb 17 2011, 02:35 hrs
Lucknow : A Dalit rape victim committed suicide on Wednesday by
hanging herself in Mubarakpur police station area in Azamgarh district
after she was allegedly threatened by the accused's father of dire
consequences if she did not settle for a compromise in the case.

The Azamgarh Superintendent of Police (SP), Bhagwan Swaroop said the
victim, Priyanka (18) of Piyropur village was allegedly raped by Guddu
Yadav and Rajesh Ram of the same village on December 21. Both the
accused have been arrested. The victim in her statement before the
court had alleged that Guddu and Rajesh had raped her. The SP said the
girl hanged herself with a saree from the ceiling hook in her house
and committed suicide on Wednesday noon. Her father, Sarvajeet Ram has
lodged a complaint this evening alleging that Guddu's father Mantri
Yadav had intercepted his daughter while she was returning home from
the field on Tuesday evening. Yadav had threatened Priyanka to settle
for a compromise in the case or she and her family would face dire
consequences, the girl's father alleged in his complaint. A case of
abetment to suicide has been registered in the girl's suicide and
efforts are on to arrest the accused, the SP said.

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