{"id":31392,"date":"2020-08-16T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=31392"},"modified":"2020-08-16T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T06:39:07","slug":"bjp-govt-under-fire-after-rape-and-murder-of-minor-in-u-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=31392","title":{"rendered":"BJP govt. under fire after rape and murder of minor in U.P."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Police reject father\u2019s claims that body of the 13-year-old girl was mutilated<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Uttar Pradesh government has come under fresh criticism after a 13-year-old girl was raped and strangulated to death in a field in Lakhimpur Kheri district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Talking to media, the victim\u2019s father had claimed that upon discovering the body in a sugarcane field, he saw it was mutilated. However, the district police chief on Sunday said the reports of mutilation were \u201ccompletely false.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The post-mortem report only confirmed rape, said Satendra Kumar, SP Kheri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Kumar, however, said that while the body had some blood stains near the eye, she may have received cut marks from the sugarcane leaves. And the tongue getting pressed between the teeth was a sign of strangulation, Mr. Kumar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two accused, both locals, were arrested and police said they were being booked under the stringent National Security Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The girl&#8217;s body was found in a sugarcane field hours after she had stepped out to answer the call of nature, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shameful, says Mayawati<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BSP chief Mayawati said the minor Dalit girl\u2019s rape and \u201cbrutal\u201d murder was shameful. \u201cWith such incidents, what difference is there between the SP government and the current BJP government,\u201d she asked in a tweet, demanding strict action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said the incident had \u201cshaken humanity\u201d. The oppression of girls and women under the BJP rule in U.P. was at its peak, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ajay Kumar Lallu, Congress U.P. president, said the incident had shamed the entire society and claimed there was a \u201cjungle raj\u201d in the State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBJP chants \u2018Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao\u2019, but is not able to provide security to [our] daughters,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is lawlessness everywhere, criminals are fearless,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>With inputs from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/bjp-govt-under-fire-after-rape-and-murder-of-minor-in-up\/article32366535.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police reject father\u2019s claims that body of the 13-year-old girl was mutilated The Uttar Pradesh government has come under fresh criticism after a 13-year-old girl was raped and strangulated to death in a field in Lakhimpur Kheri district. Talking to media, the victim\u2019s father had claimed that upon discovering the body in a sugarcane field, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}