Hyderabad: Video of two women bodies lying on the road became viral on social media. Users claimed that a gang-rape victim and her mother were killed when they were going to file a complaint against the accused in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj.
"When the gang-rape victim and her mother went to the police station to write a complaint in Kasganj, both of them were crushed to death. #EndYogisRapeRaj," reads the claim
Archive of the Facebook post can be accessed here.
Fact Check:
This incident indeed happened in Uttar Pradesh, but it is not recently as claimed in the viral posts. UP police issued a clarification on Twitter.
Official Twitter handle of Kasganj Police, UP issued a video statement clarifying that this incident happened in the Amapur area of Kasganj district in July 2020 and all the accused were arrested.
Taking a cue from the police statement, Newsmeter did a keyword search and came across several media reports about the incident dating back to July 16, 2020. According to The Logical Indian, "A 17-year-old gang-rape victim and her mother were crushed to death after one of her rapists ran over them with a tractor in Uttar Pradesh's Kasganj district on July 14, police said. The accused, aged 35, was arrested the next day on July 15 and a murder case was registered against him and his younger brother."