Like many other villages in the state, Gosainpurva has no toilets.
A narrow mud path leads to the village of Gosainpurva, abutting the city of Barabanki, barely an hour from Uttar Pradesh's capital Lucknow.
Like many other villages in the state, there are no toilets in the village, so every day the women have no alternative but to brave the walk into the nearby fields.
But the morning of September 22 turned into a nightmare for Ram Dulari and Tilak Ram. Like every other day, their 35-year-old disabled daughter, Asha, went to relieve herself in the nearby fields, but never returned.
Tilak Ram breaks down, reliving the horror, "He (the accused) tried to rape her, when she resisted and shouted, he strangled her". Asha's body was recovered from the nearby river soon after.
Asha's mother, Ram Dulari mentions that she was shy so always went a little further off than the other village girls, also relieving themselves.
Gosainpurva is an extremely poor village, where most people work either as farm hands or labourers earning as little as Rs 200 a day, making it very hard for them to even think about building toilets.
Shaken by the murder, young girls from the village say that while they had often asked their parents for a toilet at home, most cannot afford one. Some men point out how their request for toilets to the administration got caught in red tape. "Once after petitioning to the MLA and pradhan, 2000 bricks came to the village for toilets but the pradhan took them away after a while saying money for the construction never came."
The police who arrested the accused on Wednesday, say that such harassment is not uncommon.
An inconsolable Tilak Ram, paid the price for it with his daughter's life, who ironically always fussed about cleanliness.