Day after cops refuse to file gangrape FIR, girl ends life in UP’s Badaun

Hours after the police registered an FIR against three persons for allegedly gangraping a 24-year-old woman, the victim’s body was found hanging from a hook at her Badaun residence Sunday. A suicide note was also found, police claimed.

On Monday, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Badaun, Ashok Kumar Tripathi suspended the station house officer of the police station concerned on charges of negligence. The victim had gone to the local police station on June 15 but theSHO allegedly did not register an FIR despite her request. The alleged gangrape, by the victim’s distant relatives, happened last month. The FIR was registered on the directions of Bareilly zone ADG Avinash Chandra.

The victim, who got married a few years ago, was staying at her parents’ residence for the past few months, said police. Her husband works as a daily wage labourer in Delhi.