A 40-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly murdered after being raped and her body was chopped off into pieces in Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, police said on Thursday.
On Tuesday, the 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
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.
Following this, an FIR was registered against Rajkumar, his brother Bauwa Shukla and Ramakrishna Shukla, the SHO said.
The accused men are absconding and no arrests have been made in the case, he said.
Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav attacked the state government over the incident.
In a post on X in Hindi, Yadav 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.”
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