Muzaffarpur: Father beaten to death by man who attempted to rape his daughter

The woman alleged that the owner of the field, a resident of Bhagwanpur village under Gaighat police station, tried to rape her. (Representational image)

A 50-year-old man from Gaighat, Muzaffarpur was beaten to death for reprimanding an influential fellow villager for attempting to rape his 22-year-old married daughter. Gaighat police station has lodged a murder case against five people, including the man who had allegedly tried to rape the woman.

The incident took place on Sunday afternoon after the woman, who was visiting her parents, went to cut grass from a fellow villager’s field. The woman alleged that the owner of the field, Sanjay Yadav, a resident of Bhagwanpur village under Gaighat police station, tried to rape her. She, however, managed to escape and informed her father Nago Rai (50) about the incident. Rai went to Yadav’s home and reprimanded him for his misbehaviour and also threatened to go to the police. Later, Sanjay Yadav and his relatives — Dukha Rai, Jairam Rai, Dilip Rai and Veena Devi — reached Rai’s house and beat him to death.

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The victim told the police that the accused used iron rods and bricks to beat her father.

“After my father was hit by an iron rod on back of his dead, he fell down and died before he could be taken to the hospital,” said the woman in her complaint to the police.

Gaighat police station in-charge Ram Balak Yadav said: “We have sent a team to the village to talk to other villagers and gather circumstantial evidences. We have been conducting raids to arrest the accused”.