UP Father, Step-Mother Planned Daughter's Rape : Have We Lost Morality?

Rape no more feels like a precarious word, the usage has normally been incorporated into daily life. Every day, there is a rape story in some village or city. The rape incident has always a back story, which will send shivers down your spine, but who cares. Numbers are only reaching the sky. The total number of rape cases registered in India in 2021 was around 31 thousand. Rape cases increased in comparison to the previous years. Despite the fact that rape complaints have grown in recent years, it is still connected with shame for the survivor rather than the offender. In most cases, the victim knows the accused. It can be neighbour, friends, mutual connections, parents' friends, extended family members, or the father himself. At least this is what happened in the UP rape case, the father planned his daughter's rape and get her raped by his friend. Are we lost on morality? I mean father, isn't it iniquitous! Her father made her go through horrors she might have never thought of. Forget morality, where is the love and respect that a father should have for her daughter? This is not one case, there are many, where the friends, father, brother, and son acted as predators.

UP Father, Step Mother Planned Daughter's Rape

1. A man reportedly raped a woman in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, with the help of the woman's father and stepmother, police said on Monday. According to them, the suspected father and his companion Rashid have been detained, but the stepmother is still at large. The lady said in her complaint that her father summoned a friend to their house on March 13 and her stepmother confined her and Rashid inside a room while he raped her, according to SP Sagar Jain.

According to the woman, who is married, her father and stepmother threatened to murder her if she notified anybody about the assault. Rashid allegedly raped the woman multiple times before her marriage, with her parents' knowledge.

2. Three young men in their twenties were detained in Banka on Saturday, 18 march for reportedly committing gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in a hamlet under the Dhoraiya police station in Banka district.

The juvenile girl, who is said to be a native of neighbouring Jharkhand state, was social media pals with the three accused and had come to visit them without alerting their family members. The suspects were taken into custody late Friday evening.

Banka SP Dr. Satya Prakash stated that the event occurred on the night of March 16 and was brought to light when the rape victim managed to reach the Dhoraiya police station and related the occurrence, in addition to filing an FIR against the three youngsters on March 17. The defendants were identified as Niteesh Kumar, Sadashiv Mandal (Niteesh's cousin), and their friend Vikash Kumar, all of whom live in the same police station area.

3. On March 6, a boy reportedly killed his father and raped his stepmother in Odisha's Jajpur district, in a horrific and sad event. In an intoxicated condition, the accused Lugu Hembram, a native of the Champajhar village inside the district's Tamka police station borders, hacked his father Sadhai Hembram with an axe, killing him on the spot.

The accused reportedly raped his stepmother shortly after murdering his father. Several vigilant locals apprehended the offenders and reported the matter to the authorities. After being alerted, a squad of officers from the Tamka police station arrived in the village and began an investigation. They apprehended the accused.

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