Two gang-rape survivors died by suicide in Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar and Jharkhand’s Sahib Ganj area.
On August 18, Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar, a 21-year-old gang-rape survivor ends her life after UP Police denied to lodge an FIR against three men for the crime and coerced her father into misreporting the complaint.
According to the victim’s father, his daughter had gone missing from their home on the evening of August 16. After searching for her, she was found in an unconscious condition near a school and brought home by family members around 11 PM. Once she regained consciousness, she revealed that three men had lured and gang-raped her.
The father immediately went to the local police outpost to file an FIR but the Police refused to lodge an FIR and forced him to change the complaint.
On August 18, the victim’s younger sister discovered her hanging in her room. The devastated father reported to police that his daughter had felt humiliated ahead and abandoned due to the authorities lack of response.
The Police have said “the charges were upgraded to rape on the father’s complaint”, reported The Times of India.
A 16-years-old tribal girl gang-raped in Sahibganj (Jharkhand), dies by suicide
Another horrific incident of death by suicide of a gang-rape survivor in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj. A16-years-old minor tribal girl who was apparently unhappy with the local panchayat’s decision, allegedly ends her life.
The mother of the minor accused the panchayat head and the rape accused for killing her daughter.
On August 18, the local panchayat of Sahibganj district, where the incident happened, imposed a fine on the alleged rapist instead of accepting the earlier demand for marriage between him and the survivor made by her family members as she was a minor.
On August 19, the survivor’s mother lodged an FIR against 16 persons, including the local panchayat head and the rape accused, saying they killed her daughter on the night of August 18 when she was asleep in her room that was not bolted from inside. The panchayat head, who is the uncle of the rape accused, had reportedly presided over the meeting, police said.
The Times of India reported that the FIR alleged that the survivor was raped by a 23-old man of her village on August 15. However, the accused assaulted her at his house and threatened her with dire consequences if she approached the police.
Gang-rape horror in UP
In Uttar Pradesh, this is not the first incident where the rape survivor and family members have chosen death against police inaction. In March, 2024, 2 teen rape survivors died by suicide and father of one also was found hanged. In October 5, 2022, in Ambedkar Nagar, a student hung herself from the ceiling of her room. The father of the victim has reportedly stated that she had gone into “depression” after allegedly being kidnapped and gang-raped by two youth when she was on her way to school in the district’s Malipur area.
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