WHAT IS HAPPENING IN UTTAR PRADESH?

Last Friday a 14 year old girl was allegedly raped and strangulated to death in a sugarcane field in a village under Isanagar police station in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh. The girls father alleged, the accused after raping the victim, mutilated her body by cutting off her tongue and gouging out her eyes.

On the intervening night if August 15 and 16 in the Biswan police station area of Sitapur a teenage girl was raped and the case is registered.

A 15 year old girl was allegedly raped by two local youths in Mainpuri.

A nine years old class 5 student, who was raped, stangled and left bleeding in the fields in Unnao, died at Lala Lajpat Rai hospital in Kanpur.

A girl was allegedly raped and singed with cigarette butts by two men in the Gola area of Gorakhpur district as per allegation made by her family. The girl is undergoing treatment in the district hospital.

And the count is on and on ...............

At least 9,703 cases of rape of minor girls were registered in the state between January 1, 2015 and October 30, 2019 according to a submission made by the government in UP Assembly. Of these 988 girls were murdered after rape.
(These are all quoted from the media)

Is this the India conceived by Mahatma Gandhi? Is this the democracy we have opted for? Is this the oath taken in the Indian parliament every five years? Is this our schools and colleges are teaching? Is this what we Indians boasting about our age old culture and tradition?

KV George
kvgeorgein@gmail.com

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