A panchayat held in Etawah district on Monday evening has announced that Sukhbir, main accused in the abduction and rape of a 15-year-old girl, will be caught and set on fire as a punishment.
Etawah is the home district of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and Samajwadi president Mulayam Singh Yadav.
According to reports reaching here, a panchayat was convened in Kusauli village and was presided over by village head Pankaj Yadav.
The panchayat took up the case of a 15-year-old girl who was abducted and raped by four persons on May 4.
The panchayat was led by Balak Ram Yadav, Arjun Singh Yadav and Satya Ram Yadav. The girl’s parents and parents of two of the accused, Sukhbir Singh Yadav and Shiv Kumar Katheriya, were also present.
The girl’s father alleged that Sukhbir and his friend Shiv Kumar had abducted his daughter when she had gone to the fields in the morning of May 4.
The accused reportedly took the girl to Etawah and kept her confined in a room where they repeatedly raped her.
The girl’s father lodged a complaint with the police and the girl was finally rescued on May 10 from the room in Etawah. Shiv Kumar was arrested from the same room but Sukhbir was not traceable.
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‘India adjusts strategy for 2-front war’
Beijing, May 14: India continues to view Pakistan as the “real threat” even though it is adjusting its military strategy to include the possibility of a limited two-front war with both Pakistan and China, the first Blue Book on India published by a Chinese think-tank said.
Pakistan is India’s main “real threat” to maintain a high degree of vigilance and preparedness, the summary of the Blue Book released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said.
The report says Indian military deployment on land is mainly fixated against Pakistan but in recent times, it is also being adjusted for both China and Pakistan.
The book in Chinese language, the first ever on India, said, New Delhi is focusing to deal with limited war with China and Pakistan at the same time.
It spoke of large increase in troops at the borders and upgradation of border forces with new weapons and equipment. The report spoke about India’s maritime military deployment in recent years, the prime cause of China’s worry as it regards India’s fast expanding blue water Navy as a major threat. The book, which speaks of India’s efforts in the past to strengthen its maritime military strength in the East, specially mentioned Indian Navy’s Eastern Naval Command and its bases in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. — PTI