By Scroll Staff
The Bihar Police has booked six persons for the gangrape and murder of a Dalit teenager, reported The Indian Express on Thursday. This came after the minor girl’s mutilated body was found near a pond in a village in the Muzaffarpur district on Tuesday morning.
The incident has sparked a political controversy in Bihar with the Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal and Bahujan Samaj Party demanding action against those responsible.
The police said that the girl’s parents are daily wage labourers. In a complaint, the girl’s mother alleged that a man named Sanjay Rai, along with some associates, broke into their home on Sunday and kidnapped her daughter.
Despite her husband and son being at home, they were unable to stop the abduction as Rai and his associates were armed, said the mother.
The complaint, registered at a police station in Paroo village, identifies Rai as a resident of the area. He is absconding.
“Rai had been torturing us because we are Dalits and Rai comes from an influential Yadav family,” the mother’s complaint said.
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