Monday, February 7, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Rahul Gandhi to visit Dalit girl mutilated rape for resisting rape

 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kanpur/New-Article/articleshow/7443145.cms

Rahul Gandhi to visit Dalit girl mutilated rape for resisting rape
IANS, Feb 7, 2011, 01.16pm IST

KANPUR (UTTAR PRADESH): Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is on Monday likely
to visit the minor Dalit girl who was brutally disfigured after she
resisted gangrape and is being treated at a hospital here, police
sources said.

Gandhi, who is scheduled to visit his constituency Amethi, is expected
to make a stopover in Kanpur on his way, a police official said.

The Congress general secretary is expected to call on the girl at the
local medical college, where a team of orthopaedic and plastic
surgeons spent hours on Sunday carrying out several rounds of surgery
to restore her half-chopped ear, badly smashed fingers and deep gashes
on the face.

A team of special protection group sleuths had taken positions in and
around the surgical complex of GSVM Medical College, where the
victim's family was also kept under heavy security. Gandhi is expected
to arrive around noon.

Sarika, 17, had to pay with physical torture for resisting gangrape by
three youths of her own village, Udauli in Fatehpur, about 60 km from
here, late Saturday evening when she was returning from the fields
along with her friend Chaya after answering nature's call.

Sarika was allegedly grabbed by three young men, Hari Shankar, Shiv Om
and Ram Ratan, who pounced upon her, molesting her and trying to tear
off her clothes. She, however, managed to raise an alarm.

Her friend Chaya sped to her house to break the news to the victim's
family members, who rushed back to rescue Sarika, who was lying on the
ground with blood oozing out from different parts of her body.

"The boys had escaped after they realised that people in the village
were alerted," Sarika's father Badlu Ram told reporters outside the
operation theatre at the GSVM Medical College here.

"With the help of some other villagers, I rushed my daughter to the
local hospital in Fatehpur from where police brought her to the Kanpur
Medical College Sunday morning," he added.

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