Dalit woman gangraped in Greater Noida

GREATER NOIDA - A 20-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly gangraped at gunpoint in the Jewar area of Greater Noida, police said Tuesday.

The incident came to light Tuesday when the woman complained to the police.

“Shalini (name changed) was sleeping on the terrace of her parents’s house in Karoli locality of Jewar area Monday night when two neighbourers, identified as Bunty and Bhura, raped her at gunpoint. She was sleeping alone as her parents were away and her siblings were sleeping inside the house,” said Superintendent of Police Atul Saxena.

She narrated the ordeal to her parents when they returned home.

The woman, married about two years ago in Haryana’s Palwal district, had come to her parents’ home for the Rakshabandhan festival.

“The victim approached us this (Tuesday) evening. We have registered a case of rape and have sent her for medical examination,” said Station House Officer Har Pal Singh.