Uttar Pradesh: Eight-year-old Girl Raped by Relative in Sitapur, Critical

An 8-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a relative in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident was reported from Kamlapur.

Sitapur, Apr 29: An 8-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a relative in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh. The incident was reported from Kamlapur area on Sunday. The girl is admitted to hospital in a critical condition.

The heinous crime comes a day after a 14-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by four people in Bareilly. According to a report, four auto-rickshaw drivers abducted the girl from the circulating area of Bareilly station on Wednesday night and raped her. A case has been registered with the police in the case.

In another incident, a few days back, a nine-year-old girl attending a wedding ceremony was raped and murdered by a man who was hired to set up tents on the occasion. The incident took place near Mandi Samiti gate on the Aliganj road.

The Union Cabinet on April 21 approved an ordinance to award death sentence to rapists of children below 12 years of age. In a number of measures to strengthen the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Cabinet approved the promulgation of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018, for effective deterrence against commission of rape, thereby instilling a sense of security among women and especially young girls in the country.

Currently, there is an outrage in the country against the increasing cases of crime against women, particularly over the Kathua and Unnao rape cases.

Kathua Rape Case

On January 10, an eight-year-old Bakerwal girl was abducted in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir. She was drugged, held captive and raped inside Devisthan for several days. Her body was recovered from a forest on January 17.