Ram Temple sanitary worker gang-raped in Ayodhya. A 20-year-old pursuing her final year of undergraduate studies at a local college also works as cleaning staff at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
Police refused to register FIR on August 26, which, was later on registered on September 2, after intervention of a local reporter. Places where this crime was committed comes under high-security zones.
On the complaint of gang-rape filed by the victim eight persons have been arrested so far, in Ayodhya on Friday. The victim stated in her complaint with the police that Vansh Chaudhary, a resident of Sahadatganj in Ayodhya district, had promised her that he would take her to places in the district “for recreation”. The investigating officer said the girl trusted Vansh Chaudhary, prime accused because she had known him for the last four years.
According to the victim these horrific incidents are said to have occurred on three different occasions between August 16 and 25. “Vansh Chaudhary took me to a guest house on August 16, and raped me there. Soon two of his other friends joined him to carry out this heinous crime. Then he invited three more of his friends to join them in this crime and they too brutally gang-raped me”, she stated in her complaint.
The victim revealed that, “From the guest house, they took me to a barrage in Banvirpur, and again assaulted me. After two days they released me on August 18”. The victim identified two other accused as Vinay Kumar and Mohammed Shariq.
In severe trauma, she couldn’t dare to approach the police as the assailants threatened to kill her along with her family. She said, “As I feared for my family members and my life because they had threatened to kill all of us, I didn’t go to the police. But Vansh Chaudhary, again abducted me on August 25, when I was going to the temple. There were Udit Kumar, Satram Chawdhary and two unidentified persons with him. They tried to assault me in the car but rammed into a divider and I got time to run away from their clutches”, a police source quoted her as saying in her complaint on Thursday. The areas where this heinous crime were committed are identified as high-security zones in the temple town of Ayodhya.
The Inspector In-charge of Cantonment police station Amrendra Singh, said, “We registered the case on September 2, after an enquiry and eventually arrested all eight accused. They were sent to jail from the court”.
Madhuvan Singh the Superintendent of Police (City), Ayodhya, confirmed the arrest of two additional suspects, bringing the total number of arrests to five. The arrested accused have been identified as Vansh, Vinay, Shariq, Shiva and Udit. “Of the arrested persons, three were taken into custody the day after the FIR was lodged, while two more were arrested later. The investigation is ongoing”, said the Superintendent Madhuvan Singh.
The police have registered the crime under sections 127(2) (wrongful confinement), section 75 (sexual assault) and 70(1) (gang-rape) of the ‘Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita-2023’ (BNS-2023).
The sanctity of Ayodhya, the Ram Janmabhoomi temple, are perhaps the reasons that, such a brutal crime is not being extensively covered by media. People need to change their perception of identifying the good human souls and devilish souls who commit such heinous crimes. And then begins the dirty plot of blaming the entire community which, are looked upon as the perpetrators. A small class of misguided people, so called religious puritans and self-styled patriots, carried away by some ideology, by certain aims under the garb of ill-defined patriotism continues to glorify persons accused of such heinous crimes. When will we correct the system? How many of innocent are supposed to be the prey of this system?