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Minor Dalit in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, repeatedly raped, one arrested

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Gruesome details of repeated gender-based crimes against a minor Dalit child who was raped in her home in Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh (UP) have come to light. Her family came to know about it only when she showed symptoms of pregnancy and they took her to a doctor.

The 17-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by a man from her village, police at Suriyawa police station reported. PTI. The girl’s father, along with the victim, complained at the Suriyawa police station last week and filed a detailed written complaint against a certain Raju Gupta. According to details now available, the culprit, Raju Gupta, started visiting the girl’s house when no one was at home to commit the crimes again.

The police have now arrested 26-year-old Gupta, a resident of Dudwa Dharmapuri, and have filed a rape charge against him, according to SHO Ram Nagina Yadav. The charges against Gupta include rape, criminal intimidation and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

According to reports, the police had started searching for Gupta and he was finally arrested near Suriyawa railway station.

The All India Trinamool Congress (ALTC) has blamed the BJP for the incident on its account X (formerly Twitter), calling it an incident in the “BJP-ruled rape capital of the country”.

The national president of the NSUI (National Students Union of India), the student organisation of the Congress Party, Varun Choudhury, tweeted about the incident and asked whether the government would take “concrete steps to protect our girls.”

Another gruesome incident of rape of a Dalit woman was reported from UP’s Ballia in March 2024. The accused also made anti-caste remarks against her and threatened to kill her. The accused, a man named Lagandev Yadav, was reportedly arrested by the police after the rape victim’s mother complained to the police.

According to shocking figures, 10 Dalit women raped every day in India. Moreover, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has shown that the number of reported rape cases against Dalit women has increased over the years, by 45 percent between 2015 and 2020.

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