‘There are screams for justice in UP every day’

Priyanka Gandhi. Pic/PTI

One family or the other can be heard "screaming for justice" every single day in Uttar Pradesh, contrary to the Yogi Adityanath government's propaganda, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Wednesday.

Her attack on the BJP dispensation came over the incident of a 50-year-old man being shot dead in Hathras district by an accused out on bail in a case of molestation lodged in 2018 against the victim's daughter and the body of a 12-year-old girl exhumed from a pit in a man's house in Bulandshahr.

Hitting out at the BJP government, Priyanka Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi, "The father of a girl who did not take back a case of molestation was murdered in Hathras. The body of a girl, who had been missing for several days in Bulandshahr, was found buried in a house". "Contrary to the UP government's false propaganda on crime, every day one family or the other is screaming for justice," she said.

Man kills girl after failed rape bid
A man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly killing a girl, 12, after a failed rape bid, police in UP's Anupshahr said. Harendra, 22, was arrested from Shimla in Himachal Pradesh. The girl, who went missing on February 25, would go to his house for drinking water. When she went that day, he "tried to rape her but she started screaming and he choked her to death," cops said. Her body was exhumed from his house on Tuesday.

70-year-old rapes eight-year-old girl
An elderly man has been arrested for allegedly raping an eight-year-old Dalit girl in a village in Banda district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in the Baberu area around 6 pm on Tuesday when the girl was playing near her house. Jagdish Pal, 70, was arrested later, Circle Officer Siyaram said, adding the girl has been sent for medical examination. In a separate incident in the Bisanda area in the district, a 14-year-old boy was sodomised by a teenager on Tuesday. The accused boy has been held.

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