A 40-year-old Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district was brutally murdered and dismembered after allegedly being raped by caste Hindus.
On Tuesday, the Dalit woman went to Rajkumar Shukla’s house to clean his flour mill. When her 20-year-old daughter reached there, she heard her mother’s screams from a room which was bolted from inside, Station House Officer (Girwan) police station Sandeep Tiwari said to PTI news agency.
After some time, when the door of the room opened, the girl saw the mother’s body lying in three pieces and informed the police, he said.
An FIR was registered against Rajkumar, his brother Bauwa Shukla and Ramakrishna Shukla.
The accused men are absconding and no arrests have been made in the case, Tiwari said.
“The news of rape and heinous murder of a Dalit in Banda is heart-wrenching. The women of Uttar Pradesh are scared and also angry,” said former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.
“The women of Uttar Pradesh have completely lost faith in the BJP government. Now any expectation from this government is meaningless,” Yadav said.
