The mother-in-law of Manoj Kumar Sah, who was arrested for allegedly abducting and raping the five-year-old girl, on Sunday said he should be hanged for the crime, while his wife sought stringent punishment for him if the charge was proved true.
“He (Manoj) should be hanged for the bestial act,” said the 22-year-old youth’s mother-in-law Nirmala Devi.
Manoj was arrested from his in-laws’ house in Chiknauta village in Muzaffarpur on Friday night.
The youth’s wife, Archana Devi, who is in deep shock over the incident, said if the charge was true, her husband should be given stringent punishment.
His father-in-law Bindeshwar Sah is also in a state of shock. People of Chiknauta under Aurai police station were fuming. Many of them vented their anger by saying that Manoj should have been killed in the village itself for insulting them.
Manoj’s native Bharthua Panchayat, in the same district, has taken a decision to socially boycott his family.
His father, who runs a juice shop in Delhi, migrated to the Capital around a decade ago, while his grandfather and grandmother continue to live there.
—PTI