A 16-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped, raped and brutally murdered in Gaya, Bihar on Sunday, January 6. The police have reportedly refused to register the case.
According to the Twitter handle #MeToo India, the victim was raped, her breasts cut off, beheaded, and face burnt with acid. “In Gaya, her family is running from pillar to post to get justice,” the handle mentioned in a tweet.
Bringing to your notice this petition started to seek justice for a 16-year-old girl in Bihar who was kidnapped, brutally raped, body mutilated, beheaded and burnt with acid. https://t.co/dru07SQPTI
Activists have DMed pictures of the body which will not be shared here.
— #MeTooIndia (@IndiaMeToo) January 9, 2019
A petition seeking justice for the teenager was also started on Change.org on Monday, January 7. According to an NDTV report, several protest rallies were carried out in Gaya as the police are refusing to take any action in the case. The teenager’s decomposed body was found on January 6 after she went missing from her home on December 28.
The local police are allegedly harassing the victim’s family and have taken them into custody. According to the family members, the police did not act promptly when they reported that the victim was missing. The police is reportedly attempting to suggest that the murder was a case of honour killing.
UPDATE: Just had a phone conversation with one of the protesters and organisers of the candle march. The family is allegedly in police custody and the police is trying to give this an honour killing angle. The girl is from an OBC family and has been missing since Dec 28.
— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) January 10, 2019
According to a report in Prabhat Khabar, Indian Youth Congress (IYC) members visited the victim’s family and demanded immediate action against the culprits and compensation. They said that the incident was an example of the failure of Nitish Kumar government to prevent crime against women.
@ZeeNews @aajtak @republic @ndtv @PMOIndia @AmitShah @nitin_gadkari @NitishKumar
ppl are showing the reaction for such a heinous crime. But Bihar police is still inactive. Why the police is a failure even after such case.#nirbhayaingaya #JusticeForAnjana #wewantjustice pic.twitter.com/Kt81WcenvH— Mukti Ranjan (@muranjan10184) January 9, 2019
Silent protest and candle March for justice to #Anjana #biharkibeti #bunkarkibeti @aajtak @ndtv @ZeeNewsHindi @republic pic.twitter.com/EOevbsqlJY
— Vrikshbethechange (@vrikshbdchange) January 9, 2019