4 gang-raped, family head killed on Yamuna e-way

Tribune News Service

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Lucknow, May 25

Four women of a family were gang-raped and the male head who came to their rescue shot dead by a gang of highway robbers at Jewar on the Yamuna Expressway in the wee hours today.

The family was travelling from Jewar to Bulandshahr when the highway criminals shot at the tyre of their vehicle, bringing it to a standstill near Sabauta village.

As the family got off to check the tyres, a group of half a dozen armed men suddenly appeared and surrounded the family members. At gunpoint, they dragged the family to nearby fields where they deprived them of their belongings, including around Rs 45,000 in cash, phones, wallets, purses and jewellery.

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The armed men then took the womenfolk still deeper in the fields where they allegedly gang-raped them.

When the head of the family accompanying them attempted to stop the criminals, he was shot in the chest and leg, killing him instantly. By the time the police arrived on the scene, the miscreants had vanished.

According to Gautama Buddha Nagar Superintendent of Police Luv Kumar, a case of loot, murder and gang-rape had been lodged and raids were being conducted to arrest the criminals. The police have sent the women for medical examination.

It may be recalled that last year, a similar case of a brutal gang-rape of a Noida woman and her minor daughter had hit headlines. The incident had taken place at Dostpur village of Bulandshahr on the Delhi-Kanpur highway.

Condemning the incident, Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said a delegation of party MPs and former ministers would visit the crime scene on May 26-27 to make an on-the-spot enquiry.