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Bihar police clueless as half-burnt bodies of two women remain unidentified.

Source – hindustantimes.com

Bihar police is struggling to identify two women, suspected to have been raped before they were murdered and set alight, nearly three days after the first half-burnt body was discovered.

A bullet ridden and half-charred body of a woman in her mid twenties was found in the Buxar district on Tuesday while another woman’s body, with her face burnt completely, was found in Samastipur district on Wednesday.

Breakthrough in both the cases remain distant since the victims were unidentified.

Sources say the police in Buxar are waiting for the forensics to confirm if the girl was gang-raped before she was shot from a close range. A special investigation team (SIT) has been formed under the Sadar DSP.

A case of murder, disappearance of evidence, crime with common intention and possession of arms has been filed against unknown assailants and a reward of Rs 50,000 announced to help identify the victim or the accused.

“The biggest challenge is identification of the body, as it will give investigation a proper direction,” said a police officer associated with the probe.

The cremation has been delayed by a day in the hope that someone may identify the woman.

“Around 10 people came to see the body, but none of them identified it. Therefore, we have decided to wait for another 24 hours,” said Buxar SP Upendra Nath Verma.

The mouth of the woman, whose body was found in a Tobacco field in Samastipur, was gagged with a piece of cloth and the face was charred beyond recognition. The woman was wearing bangles and had red dye (alta) on her feet, indicating she was married.

Samastipur SP Vikas Burman said police teams announced the recovery of the body in several neighbouring villages but could not establish her identity. There were no complaint registered of any woman of similar age missing during the period.

The two cases have led to protests by activists and some political parties in Patna.

Bihar: Protesting Minor’s Rape in Kaimur District, Mob Pelts Stones, Burns Shops.

Source – thewire.in

New Delhi: A mob in the Kaimur district of Bihar turned violent on Monday after a video of a 17-year-old girl gang-raped by four men in Bihar was released by one of the accused on Saturday. The girl was waiting to return home from her coaching classes when the accused persuaded her to drop by a nearby parked car. Later, four men took turns to rape her in the moving vehicle.

The offence went unreported for a week as the survivor had been threatened by the accused that they would upload the video on social networking sites if she reported anything to the police. During this time, the accused again tried to sexually exploit her. Eventually, on Saturday, the accused made the video viral.

As per the SP, two of the four accused – Arbaaz Daroga alias Kallu and Sonu Shahwaz – have been arrested and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) is formed to nab the remaining two.

Protesting the incident, a mob pelted stones at the house of the accused in the Mohania area and torched makeshift shops and motorbikes of a particular community. Some four-wheelers were also heavily damaged.

In order to control the situation, Kaimur district magistrate and superintendent of police Dilnawaz Ahmed organised a peace committee meeting and appealed to the communities to maintain communal harmony in the town.

“The police swung into action and tried to ascertain the place of occurrence and the identity of the accused. On Sunday night, two of the accused were arrested,” Mohania SDPO Rajendra Singh told the Times of India.

The accused have been booked under various sections of the IPC, including wrongful confinement, gang rape and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

The SDJM court at Bhabhua recorded the survivor’s statement under Section 164 of the CrPC and sent her to the Sadar hospital for medical examination.

Three of the four accused have been identified in the video, which has been sent to the forensic science laboratory in Patna, while the fourth accused has been identified by the survivor.

“My repeated requests to spare me went on deaf ears as the accused kept on repeating the crime. At one point of time, I fell unconscious. That also didn’t deter them,” the survivor told the investigating officers.