A day before a rape victim was set afire in Unnao by two of her alleged rapists and three others, a 30-year-old woman faced acid attack by four men in a village near here for refusing to withdraw her complaint of rape against them from court, police said on Saturday.
The body of the rape victim who succumbed to severe burn injuries in Delhi hospital arrives in her native village on Saturday. The body reached the village after 9.00 pm amid heavy police arrangements to avoid any untoward incident.
The Uttar Pradesh government has announced ex gratia of Rs 25 lakh for the Unnao rape victim's family on Saturday.
The postmortem of the Unnao rape survivor showed that she died of extensive burn injuries, a senior doctor at the Safdarjung hospital said on Saturday.
The police said a youth belonging to Makhi village in Unnao district neighbouring the girl's lured her to an agricultural field and tried to rape her.
The incident occurred on Thursday evening when the girl was alone at her home after returning from school.
"Our police are not idle. We are not like the BJP government. Whether it is a rape incident or not we can ascertain only after getting the post-mortem report," she said.
"When the last incident was reported, the government shielded criminals till the last. You can think how difficult it would have been for the woman and her patience to fight the battle,"
The police on Friday arrested a 20-year-old woman, her boyfriend and another man after she allegedly faked rape to frame three witnesses in a murder case against her lover. The woman, a resident of Agra, had concocted the story upon her boyfriend's insistence.
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"The rape cases are rising which is alarming. A rape victim was burnt yesterday by the rape accused. Such incidents shake the country and every government should pay attention towards it,"
With 86 rape cases having been reported in Unnao from January to November this year, this district now qualifies to be known as the "rape capital" of Uttar Pradesh.
Different teams of Hyderabad police, probing the horrific crime, carried out further searches both at the place where the victim was raped and also where her body was set ablaze.
A rape survivor from Unnao, who was set ablaze, landed at the Delhi airport and was rushed to the Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday evening, police said.
The Unnao rape survivor, who was set ablaze on Thursday morning by those who had raped her, is being airlifted to Delhi for advanced treatment.
Local farmers spotted the body in English Bazar Police Station area in the morning, following which they raised an alarm, the DCP, who visited the site along with Superintendent of Police Alok Rajoria, said. "Prima facie it seems that the victim is in her early 20s. Her body has several injury marks."
A 19-year-old management trainee from Mumbai was allegedly raped by a boy after a house party. The Mumbai girl was in Jaipur on a training course.
The 23-year-old law student, who accused former Union Minister Chinmayanand of rape, has been granted bail by the Allahabad High Court, two months after she was arrested on charges of extortion.
A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charge of allegedly raping his maid on the grounds that the victim "contacted the police after three months" and she continued working there even after the incident.
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