SITAPUR: On June 27, the news of a minor woman being gang-raped because she turned into acting properly in faculty despatched shockwaves across the kingdom. Days later, there are alarming questions round it: Was it an incident of one student being sedated, gang-raped and filmed on campus? Or, is it a drug and sex ring going for walks at a government excessive college?
The 15-12 months-vintage Sitapur girl who in an FIR accused a woman instructor, the trainer’s brothers and two cousins of placing her thru a -year ordeal have, in her statement to a judicial magistrate below Section 164 of CrPC, made any other annoying declare that she is not the simplest rape survivor.
“…Galat kaam ke ladkon se paise let this. Aur ladkiyan Bhi phansi this (The teacher took money to permit boys from outdoor input campus and torment us. Like me, other ladies were preyed upon too),” reads a section of her 3-web page statement recorded in-camera on July 2. The TOI is in possession of a duplicate of the assertion.
Speaking to TOI on July four, the teenager caught to her declare. “Char-paanch ladkiyon ke Saath Hua (Four-5 women in my class were sedated and sexually assaulted),” stated the lady who cleared her Class X boards with ninety-three % this yr.
According to her father, the accused trainer allowed a gang of 10-12 youths and adolescent boys to have unrestricted access to the campus and college students. Some of those youths had been armed with “Samantha (countrymade pistol)” the use of which they intimidated the schoolgirls, he stated.
While the FIR lodged at Maholi police station names all of the 5 accused, only one — Ghanshyam (20), a cousin of the accused teacher — turned into arrested on July four and sent to jail.
LR Kumar, Sitapur SP, informed TOI that the woman trainer has been grilled and that arrests have been being made “primarily based on proof”. On allegations of a drug and intercourse ring at the authorities faculty, the SP said the same couldn’t be substantiated thus far. “If there are greater victims, they could come forward,” he added. Sitapur DM Akhilesh Tiwari formed a three-member committee, led by way of SDM Shashi Bhushan Rai, to probe into the allegations. The team visited the faculty overdue closing month. However, the DM or the SDM could not be reached notwithstanding repeated tries.
The father of the female said: “If my daughter receives justice, perhaps, other ladies get the courage to return forward too.”
LUCKNOW: The kingdom government on Saturday ordered posting of 560 policemen in UP Power Corporation Limited on a deputation length of years with the purpose of curtailing excessive line losses that are denting its sales. Following the order, 10 inspectors, one hundred ninety sub-inspectors and 360 constables would be posted at police check posts committed to absorbing energy theft instances.
Soon after coming to power, the Yogi government had decided to create police take a look at publishing in every district to handle energy robbery cases. “The deployment of police will assist in checking power theft,” said primary secretary, strength, Alok Kumar.
The move, sources stated, turned into necessitated by incidents of electricity employees being attacked for the duration of anti-electricity theft drives.
A week earlier, strength minister Shrikant Sharma had ordered snapping of energy connections of clients having energy load of 5Kw and above with unpaid strength payments for 2 months.
The selection to create dedicated police units to test energy theft turned into initially taken in Akhilesh Yadav government but the flow did now not take off and became kept pending inside the cupboard.
LUCKNOW: A former financial institution manager and the accountant of an agriculture institute – a deemed university — landed inside the Enforcement Directorate (ED) dragnet after they booked via police for fraudulently withdrawing over Rs 24 crore from its bank account with the aid of misusing their positions.
The financial institution supervisor and institute accountant came on police radar once they went on a spree purchasing a fleet of excessive stop SUVs, apartments and for holidaying at seven-superstar lodges, which was grossly disproportionate to their acknowledged sources of income.
Kamal Ahsan, supervisor of a private bank, in connivance with the college accountant, Rajesh Kumar withdrew over Rs 24 crore from the institution’s account within the bank from 2013 to 2016 via misusing their positions, said ED officials.
Initially, in March 2017, police registered a case in connection with inexplicable withdrawals from the financial institution account of the college. The case was transferred to ED in October 2017.
ED officers told TOI on Saturday that round eleven extra staffers of the institute are under the scanner for conniving in the crime.
“We have attached belongings of the accused, which includes 17 immovable properties really worth round Rs. Three.18 crore, mutual fund investments of round Rs 85 lakh and round Rs fifty-eight lakhs mendacity in financial institution bills of each accused, their own family participants, buddies, and relatives. More searches could be completed within the coming weeks,” said a senior ED authentic.
The respectable stated that the scam came to note while colleagues of Ahsan noticed him coming to office in a high-give up the car at the same time as the co-employees of Kumar also suggested his the use of an excessive-give up SUV. Both also went on holidays and stayed at seven-megastar hotels.
The respective government achieved inner probes after which informed the police. Ahsan and Kumar used to withdraw cash from the college’s money owed.
They fabricated financial institution statements to cover the coins withdrawals and submitted them to the college.
