The relatives of the victims of the horrible gangrape rape have threatened authorities that they would kill themselves if the persons arrested are not punished in three months. A 13-year-old girl and her mother were raped at gunpoint in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr area. In a quick move police arrested Naresh (25), Bablu (22) and Rais (28) and detained a dozen after launching a massive hunt for the dacoits suspected to be behind the crime on August 1. Meanwhile the minor victim’s father said, “We were looted, beaten up and we all know what they did to my daughter...I want my wife and daughter to punish them. If they are not punished within three months, then all three of us will commit suicide”. The victim’s father is a cab driver whose family was attacked by a group of bandits. A gang of dacoits raped the woman and daughter after dragging them out of a car on NH-91 when they were travelling with their family from Noida to Shahjahanpur on the night of 29 July. “There were seven to eight men. They tied our hands and feet and beat us. They kept beating us even when we begged for water or we made any movement,” the 39-year-old man said alleging that they did not get any help on dialling police control room number 100. The ruling Samajwadi party has been facing pressure from the opposition on the issue. The State government suspended five police officers, including district SSP Vaibhav Krishna.
