Family said they were pressured to withdraw the case.
Highlights
- The girl was found dead at her house this morning
- The girl said she was kidnapped on Monday night, gang-raped by three men
- There were no injuries on her private parts: Police cited medical report
A 14-year-old girl was found hanging at her house in western Uttar Pradesh's Budaun this morning, two days after she alleged that three men, one of whom was known to her, kidnapped her at gunpoint and gang-raped her. The girl said she was kidnapped on Monday night when she stepped out of the house to go to the toilet.
In her police complaint filed on Tuesday, the girl claimed the men took her to a government-run school in the village and then raped her. The girl was found unconscious inside the school the next morning after her parents started looking for her.
A day after the First Information Report or FIR was filed in the case, Budaun's police chief said he was doubtful about the girl's version. "The main accused has been arrested but the medical report of the girl said there were no injuries on her private parts. We have also found that the girl spoke to the boy over the last few months, at least 122 times. The people in the village have told us the main accused and the girl were in a relationship," said Ashok Kumar, police chief of Budaun.
The girl's father is a daily wager and her mother is a house wife.
"I have got to know that the family of the key accused went to the girl's house on Wednesday evening and asked them to take back the complaint and take 60 thousand rupees. When the girl's father refused, he was threatened," one of the relatives of the girl told NDTV.
Police have said they are investigating why the girl committed suicide. The body has been sent for postmortem.