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New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh Police on Monday arrested another accused in the Fatehpur Dalit girl assault case. The police had arrested one of the accused in the case on Saturday. However, two other accused are still absconding.
The girl's limbs were chopped off by some men as she bravely resisted their attempts to rape her on Saturday. The victim is in a critical condition and is undergoing treatment in Kanpur.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi met the victim in the hospital on Monday, following which a scuffle broke out between between Congress workers and the police.
The incident has given the Congress more ammunition against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
Police claim the ghastly incident was the result of an ongoing feud between the victim’s and assailants’ families. A case has been registered against three people.
"When they started harassing me, I tried to run away, but I could not. They attacked me with axes," said the victim.
"One girl was let off. The other's limbs were chopped off," Fatehpur SP said.
The attack comes on the heels of a recent controversy surrounding a BSP MLA from Banda, accused by a Dalit girl of abduction and repeated rape.
Talking to CNN-IBN, the Chairperson of National Commission for Women, Girija Vyas said that she wants rape cases to be fast-tracked in Uttar Pradesh. "We have found that neither the Government, nor the police is sensitive because after so many rape cases nobody seem to know their responsibility," she said.
The BJP also condemned the incident on Monday. BJP spokesperson Nirmala Seetharaman said, "The law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh is completely deteriorated. Dalit girls in their own houses are not safe when a Dalit lady is the Chief Minister."
Mayawati is now facing ire from people on the ground as well. Her convoy in Aligarh on Saturday was stopped by a woman, accusing a minister in her cabinet Thakur Jaiveer Singh, of murdering her father who was an engineer in the irrigation department.
Uttar Pradesh will go to elections in 2012 and during her campaign in 2007 Mayawati had targeted the then Mulayam Singh Yadav government on the issue of 'goondaraj' (lawlessness). Since coming to power Mayawati has been working one the twin issues of social justice and better law and order. She is keen not to let law and order deteriorate. BSP leaders have been allegedly involved in rape and murder cases.
Although she has allowed the police to act against the accused but she is yet to take any political action against such leaders. She has till now not expelled any of the accused leader from her party.
Figures from the national Crime Records Bureau for 2009 show that Uttar Pradesh has had a serious law and order problem. The state ranks third after Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal with 23,254 cases of crime reported in 2009.
Uttar Pradesh reported the highest percentage of violent crime in 2009, at 11.9 percent. 22.9 percent of all sexual harassment cases have been reported from Uttar Pradesh.
There was a five percent increase in crime against Dalits in 2007-2008.
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