Woman, daughter gang raped in Uttar Pradesh

Bulandshahr : Police detained 15 people on Sunday for the alleged gangrape of a woman and her teenage daughter near Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh, India.

A Noida-based family of five people, including the 13-year-old girl and her mother, was headed to their native place in Shahjahanpur in a car late on Friday night.

Miscreants waylaid them on the Ghaziabad-Aligarh highway, dragged the woman and her daughter out of the vehicle and raped them for over two hours, the family complained.

Police registered a case of robbery, rape and wrongful confinement. Senior officials rushed to the spot and roped in the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force to probe the crime.

Miscreants threw a piece of metal at the car when it was passing through Dostpur village 1:30am, forcing the driver to stop, police said. While the driver got out to examine the damage, the criminals, who were hiding on the roadside, overpowered him and allegedly forced him to drive the car off the road and into the fields.

“A detailed questioning is underway... and we have got substantial leads so far. Our teams are working on the case,” said Vaibhav Krishna, senior superintendent of police, Bulandshahr.

Laxmi Singh, inspector general of police of the Meerut Range, too said: “We have important clues.”

Police suspect the involvement of a Bawariya (gypsy) gang in the crime. “The modus operandi of criminals points towards tribal Bawariya gangs, though we have been working on all possible angles to crack the case,” SSP Krishna said over phone from Bulandshahr.

Kotwali Dehat sation officer Ram Sain Singh was relieved from the charge of the case after police reported his negligence in the case, the SSP said.