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4, Including RSS Official, Booked for Molesting Minor Dalit Girl

BJP workers, led by party’s district president Alok Gupta, gathered at the police station and created mayhem.

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After a 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly sexually assaulted in Uttar Pradesh’s Mainpuri district on Wednesday, 2 October, a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) office bearer and three of his family members were booked by the state police.

The police have lodged a molestation case against the four accused.

Also, based on the complaint of the accused – RSS Prant Sah Boudhik Pramukh, Satish Yadav – a counter FIR has been registered against the girl's father and four others for dacoity, intentional insult and voluntarily causing injury.

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According to police, an FIR was registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC) 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) as well as with sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against Satish, his brothers, Jaidev Yadav, Sahdev Yadav, and his son, Ganesh Yadav.

“The incident took place when Ganesh was getting a land levelled in the village and a few workers passed lewd comments at the girl, who was going to the field. When she protested, an argument started between them,” said a senior police official, according to The Indian Express.

“Following this, more people reached the spot and a scuffle broke out. Some of the accused were allegedly beaten up. Those involved have suffered minor injuries,” the officer added.

The girl's father claimed that she was reportedly going to to the field to relieve herself, when she was dragged to a nearby field by the accused.

Shortly after the incident, BJP workers, led by party's district president Alok Gupta, gathered at the police station and created a mayhem.

They demanded that the case be removed and wanted the police to register a case against the girl's father and some other people.

(With inputs from The Indian Express)

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