19, Jan 2016

This comes a week after a 40-year-old health worker from Muzaffarnagar committed suicide after a video of her alleged rape was circulated on WhatsApp.
Written by Manish Sahu | Lucknow | Published:January 19, 2016 2:50 am
Two of the accused were arrested and sent to jail after being produced before a local court Monday.
Police have been deployed in a Muzaffarnagar village in western Uttar Pradesh after a video of an alleged gangrape of a woman in 2013 was circulated on WhatsApp. The woman, who got married in 2014, has lodged an FIR naming six accused. She claimed that she was being blackmailed, and her marriage had ended as a result.
Two of the accused were arrested and sent to jail after being produced before a local court Monday.
Tension mounted in Khatauli after local BJP leader Virendra Singh, jailed in 2013 for calling a mahapanchayat before the Muzaffarnagar riots, threatened to call another gathering if police did not act. He met the Muzaffarnagar SSP along with the woman’s father and said, “If police fail to initiate action, we will hold a mahapanchayat again.” Singh also demanded that the National Security Act be invoked against the accused.