19-Year-Old Gang-Raped By Her Friends, No Action Taken By Officials Since A Month
Mumbai: In one of the most shameful cases recorded in India, a 19-year-old girl was gang-raped brutally by four of her friends. The girl came to Mumbai when four of her friends decided to celebrate her birthday, as per the complaint filed at Begumpura Police Station in Aurangabad, on July 7. Allegedly, the four friends of the victim raped her after cutting the cake.
She later returned to Aurangabad but did not tell her parents about the incident until she was hospitalized, the police said.
The Nationalist Congress party condemned the police for failing to arrest the accused.
A protest march led by party MP Supriya Sule will be taken out in Mumbai on Friday, NCP chief spokesperson Nawab Malik said.
The girl was admitted to the hospital on July 25th. Her condition was very critical and on Wednesday night, she passed away, according to a police official.
“The victim has died. It has been one month since alleged gang-rape), yet the accused have not been arrested. To condemn it, we will take out a protest march from Lal Dongar in Chembur to Chunabhatti police station tomorrow,” Mr. Malik said.
We are investigating, but as of now we haven’t got any leads about the accused people’s identity,” said an official of Chunabhatti police station.
The alleged rape was discovered when the girl informed on pain in private parts on July 14th. She Was admitted to a private hospital in Aurangabad.
The doctors suspected that she had been raped and informed the police and she was shifted to the government-run hospital.
Advocate Nitin Satpute and Divya Gupta sent a letter to the Senior police inspector in Chunabhatti police station in order to urge him to take action on the situation calling it “shameful”.
“I would like to bring to the urgent and immediate attention on the shameful state of affairs in the law and order situation prevailing in the city, Chembur in particular where a girl is a gang raped and the police are totally clueless and irresponsible,” the letter reads.
“It is shocking to note that the gruesome incident occurred in the city almost one and a half months and the police are still sitting silently on the matter probably bring under the fear or the influence of the accused people,” the letter said.
“It is also a failure of the police that they have not registered the provision under the SC/ST act as the victims belong to the SC/ST community, it further added.
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