UP: Teen gangraped, killed; dad says cops forced to cremate minor, police deny

In a horrifying replay of the 2020 Hathras incident the family of a 16yearold girl who was allegedly gangraped and killed has alleged that the police forced them to cremate the minor before they could even arrange for her last ritesThe incident led to massive protests on TuesdayThe incident according to reports took place on January 21 but the family kept quiet after police threatened them and asked them not to talk about the crimeIt was only when word spread and some people tweeted about it that the incident came out in the openSenior Superintendent of Police SSP Bulandshahr Santosh Singh said that the police never forced the family to cremate their daughter and that the matter was being politicised by vested interestsHe further said The girl was friendly with the boy The main accused thought that she was cheating on him so he took her out and shot her He also slashed his own arms and neck with a blade The family demanded that the case be transferred to another police station and we have agreedThe father of the minor girl in Bulandshahr meanwhile said that the police forced us to cremate her in the night without giving us an opportunity to conduct proper ritualsThe victims father an OBC said his daughter was friends with an uppercaste boyThe boy allegedly came to the girls village and asked her to come with him for an outing She went with himLater I got a call from the police saying that the body of my daughter was lying near a tube well on the outskirts of the village I rushed to the spot but by the time I reached they had taken her body to the postmortem house Cops misbehaved with me when I questioned them We were given my daughters body after almost 24 hours and then the cops forced me to cremate her immediately he saidWhen I said that it looked like she had been violated cops asked me to shut up and go home said the father He added that around four people were seen with his daughter near the siteAn FIR has been lodged under the relevant sections of the IPC and POCSO Act after several protests erupted locallyTwo out of the four accused have been arrested so farThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever