Amid the nationwide outrage over the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman from Hathras, another woman was allegedly gang-raped and killed by two people in Uttar Pradesh’s Balrampur on Tuesday (September 29).
The incident took place in Gaisari village of Balrampur. The 22-year-old victim was a second-year B.Com student had gone to her college when she was gang-raped. The victim’s family said that she used to work in a private firm.
According to the woman’s family, she was abducted by rapists on her way back home. The victim’s family claimed that she returned home in a rickshaw in an unconscious state and had her legs and spine were broken. The parents got worried after seeing the girl’s condition and rushed her to a nearby hospital, but she passed away on way to the hospital.
The family claimed that the woman was also injected with poison before she was raped.
“The family said that the woman did not reach home on time on Tuesday. They tried to contact her but could not get in touch. After some time she came home in a rickshaw with a glucose drip attached to her arm and she was in a bad state. The relatives took her to a hospital but she died on the way,” Balrampur Superintendent of Police Dev Ranjan Verma said.