Man ends life in UP as girls threaten to foist rape case

An eligible bachelor set to marry later this month hanged himself to death after some girls allegedly threatened to foist a rape case against her.

This incident happened in Uttar Pradesh; a state notorious for rapes.

Police said 24-year-old Dilip Kumar of Parwar Paschim locality of Bijnor police station limits had left his house for some work in Telibagh on Saturday and was later found hanging from a tree alongside the canal in Uttragaon village of Mohanlalganj.

Some passersby saw the man hanging from the tree with a rope tied around his neck and informed the police.

Police found a mobile phone and a suicide note on the victim. Bhandari Lal, father of the deceased said in his FIR that Dilip Kumar had fallen to the trap of the girls led by one Seema (name changed) in Vrindavan colony.

“Seema and her aides used to trap innocent persons. Dilip was also one of the victims. She sent her henchmen to intimidate when she came to know that he was going to get married,” he said.

He further said that she threatened to frame him in a case of rape when he refused to their demands.

“Dilip was tense as a rape case will defame him and his family due to which he ended his life,” Bhandari Lal said.

Police said a probe is underway and all the aspects of the case will be looked into.