Anganwadi worker gang-raped, killed

Budaun : A 50-year-old anganwadi worker was gang-raped and murdered allegedly by a priest and his two accomplices in Budaun district of Uttar Pradesh, triggering an opposition's outcry and a comparison with Delhi's 2012 Nirbhaya case.

While the priest is on the run, his two accomplices were arrested on Tuesday night after the post-mortem report confirmed rape, police said on Wednesday, adding the woman's leg and a rib bone too were found fractured and there were injuries in her private parts.

Taking cognisance of the incident, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered "strongest possible action" in the case even as opposition parties attacked his government, terming the incident "horrific" and "shameful", with the Congress comparing it to the Nirbhaya incident of 2012.

The National Commission for Women too took note of the incident and decided to send a team of its members to probe the incident.

About the incident, Badaun's Senior Superintendent of Police Sankalp Sharma said, "The post-mortem report confirms rape and there are injuries in her private parts and a fracture in the leg." The Congress has attacked the Uttar Pradesh government. As per reports, the crime was committed when the woman had gone to a temple to offer prayers.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi said on Twitter: "In Hathras the government machinery did not listen to the victims, saved officers and suppressed voices... in Badaun the Station Incharge of the police did not listen to the victim's plea, did not visit the crime scene. There is something wrong in the UP government's intentions on women's security".