17-year-old on way to tuition, gang-raped, tortured, strangled, village tense

Aligarh: A student of class 9 was allegedly pulled off her bicycle by four men, dragged into a sugarcane field, gangraped and was strangled to death with her duppatta.

According to a news report, the 17-year-old from Harduaganj in Aligarh, was on her way to tuition on Wednesday when the four men, in two bikes, intercepted her and violated her. The men strangled her to death, and her body was found mutilated hours later.

The villagers were angry with the police for not taking any action and four policemen were also attacked. The villagers also did not permit the police to remove the victim’s body, holding them up until a larger contingent arrived.

No arrests have been made so far.

PTI