16-year-old girl raped in Agra; police arrest ex-BJP leader’s driver

As per the First Information Report (FIR) lodged at the area police station on Wednesday night, the victim left her home at around 8 pm on the day. When she did not come back till late at night, her relatives searched for her but in vain. They were told that she was seen near the marriage hall and when they reached the premises, the main gate was not opened.

A few people from the crowd scaled the back wall of the hall, entered the premises, and found the girl unconscious in a room there. The angry crowd then laid siege to the area police station and demanded that the driver and Aakash be arrested soon and the marriage hall should be bulldozed.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati in a post on X condemned the rape of the girl and demanded that the government must take measures to ensure that such incidents do not happen in future.

Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party said Premchand Kushwaha, the former general secretary of the BJP’s Agra unit, is not associated with the party. “He had been expelled by the party two years ago for anti-party activities,” said Giriraj Kushwaha, the BJP Agra unit chief.