UP Government Official Rapes 6-Year-Old Dalit Girl At Her House: Cops
NDTV
Gajendra Singh is posted as the Agriculture Development Officer (Agriculture Protection) in Bulandshahr's Shikarpur block.
A 57-year-old government official has been arrested for raping a six-year-old Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr and then committing bestiality with a goat. The survivor's family said the man used to frequent the village for official work and entered their house when he saw that the girl was playing in the courtyard with the child of a neighbour and no adult was present.
The rape as well as the bestiality was recorded by the neighbour's child, who is about the same age as the girl. Officials said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken note of the heinous crime, the official has been suspended and the state government has announced an assistance of Rs 8.25 lakh to the girl's family.
Police officials said Gajendra Singh, a resident of Rasoolpur village, is posted as the Agriculture Development Officer (Agriculture Protection) in the Shikarpur block. On Monday evening, he went to a village in Ahmedgarh police station area where he saw the girl and the boy playing in the courtyard of the house and went and sat on a cot there.
