Badaun Temple Priest Held In Rape-Murder Case
- 08-Jan-2021
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Four days after a 50-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped and abandoned outside her home at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district, the local temple priest, the main accused in the case, was arrested from a nearby village in the district late on Thursday, the police said.
The priest, identified as Satyanand, was hiding in the house of one of his followers in a village from where he was picked up and arrested, PTI reported, quoting District Magistrate Kumar Prashant.
Dropped outside her house on Sunday night, allegedly by the priest and two associates, the woman later died in hospital due to excessive bleeding.
The two other accused were arrested on Wednesday. A day later, three UP Police constables were deployed outside the temple.
A local resident said the victim was known to visit the temple regularly, but no one could say what had transpired on Sunday. The temple is situated close to the main village road, near a sprawling farm. Satyanand, the local residents said, lived in one of the rooms inside the temple.
