DU student ‘abducted’ from near Delhi home, beaten to death In UP's Baghpat
New Delhi: In a tragic incident, a second-year BA student of Delhi University's School of Open Learning, Himanshu Sharma, was allegedly abducted from near his home in northeast Delhi, taken to Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh, and beaten to death on Saturday.
The family accused of the crime claims that Himanshu had raped their 19-year-old daughter and was blackmailing her, allegations which Himanshu's mother has vehemently denied.
An FIR has been filed against seven people. Baghpat Kotwali circle officer Harish Bhadauria confirmed the arrest of two suspects. NP Singh, ASP, Baghpat, stated, "In her complaint, the girl's mother claimed her daughter was being blackmailed by Himanshu after he had raped her." The girl had confided in her brother, who then, along with some relatives, lured Himanshu to Baghpat under false pretenses and abducted him.
Rajni Sharma, Himanshu's mother, described feeling uneasy when her son left home around 5 PM on Saturday, supposedly to attend a birthday party. She grew more concerned when she found his phone switched off. Around 10:30 PM, a neighbor informed Rajni that Himanshu had been kidnapped and showed her a video call with Himanshu in captivity, threatening his life.
Rajni was then taken to a forest in Baghpat, where she found her son severely beaten in a car. Despite her attempts to take him to a hospital, the police arrived and apprehended two of the suspects.
For the past 12 years, Rajni has been raising her two children alone after her husband abandoned the family. She runs a small grocery shop and stitches clothes to support her family in northeast Delhi's New Usmanpur.
The FIR includes charges under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, including 140 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder or for ransom etc) and 103 (1) (murder).
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Body of UP girl who fell in Meghalaya waterfall recovered
Shillong (PTI): The body of a 15-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh who fell into a waterfall in Meghalaya's Sohra area while trying to take snaps a day ago was recovered on Thursday morning, officials said.
The girl had gone missing on Wednesday after she reportedly slipped while trying to take photographs and fell into one of the deep natural pools at the Wei Sawdong Falls, they said.
Search operations were conducted through Wednesday but were called off after sunset.
Around 7.30 am on Thursday, locals spotted the body stuck between rocks near the waterfall, officials said. Following this, a joint team of Fire and Emergency Services and the Sohra Police recovered the body around 10 am.
"Local village volunteers resumed the search early this morning and spotted the body, following which we recovered the body," a senior official told PTI.
The body has been sent for post-mortem, he added.
