gangraped and later burnt alive a woman + BAREILLY: All the accused people who allegedly(35) in the yagyashala of a temple near her house in UP’s Sambhal district on Saturday, were her relatives.“During the investigation, it was revealed that one of the five accused, Mahaveer, is a distant cousin of the victim’s husband, while the other four are also relatives. We are conducting raids at all their relatives’ houses but the accused are yet to be nabbed,” said inspector and investigating officer Varun Kumar, SHO of Rajpura police station.Meanwhile, additional director general of police ( Bareilly ) Prem Prakash visited the crime scene on Sunday and took stock of the situation.“We have checked the call details of the victim’s phone and also the control room of dial 100 in Lucknow. No call on dial 100 was made. She might have tried but due to congestion, her call was not completed. Besides, forensic tests are being conducted to ascertain if she was raped before she was set ablaze,” the ADG said.The ghastly crime was committed in a village under Rajpura police station in the early hours of Saturday. Police said the victim was sleeping when her attackers barged into her house and brutalised her.Later, they dragged her to a nearby temple and burnt her alive. An FIR under IPC sections 376D (gangrape), 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) was lodged against Aram Singh, Mahaveer, Charan Singh, Gullu and Kumarpal.

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