Uttar Pradesh: 13-year-old gang-raped & murdered, police to invoke NSA against accused

Uttar Presh cops will invoke National Security Act (NSA) against two men accused of gang rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Lakhimpur Kheri district, police said Saturday.

girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Isanagar in Lakhimpur Kheri on Friday. Her body was recovered from a sugarcane field in Isanagar. Satyendra Kumar, Superintendent of Police (SP), Lakhimpur Kheri said two men have been booked under offences of murder and gangrape and ditional action will also be taken against m under NSA.

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"Body of a 13-year-old was found from a sugarcane field in Isanagar. An FIR has been registered. Post mortem report has confirmed rape. Two men Santosh Yav and Sanjay Gautam have been arrested and sent to jail," Kumar told reporters.

accused were booked under Section 302 (murder) and Section 376 (D) (gangrape) of Indian Penal Code. Action against both will be taken under National Security Act as well.

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NSA invoked against ar history-sheeter

A few weeks ago,  stringent NSA was slapped in Mhya Presh against a man arrested on Monday for allegedly kidnapping a woman and raping her in confinement for 20 days, police said. Rehmat Khan (32) was arrested after woman escaped captivity and approached police, an official said.

Khan h kidnapped 20-year-old woman from Dhar district and h raped her while keeping her captive for 20 days, said Superintendent of Police Vipul Shrivastava.

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"Rehmat is a history-sheeter with nine cases against his name. He also has three cases of kidnapping and rape. He has alrey served a jail sentence in one rape case," SP said.

"We have invoked National Security Act on Khan apart from charges of kidnapping, rape among ors of Indian Penal Code. He has been sent to Barwani's central jail," SP informed.

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(With inputs from ncy)

(Im credits: PTI)