Muzaffarnagar: The trial court docket in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar has sentenced two youths accused of gangraping a lady all the way through the 2013 communal riots. That is almost certainly the primary case by which punishment has been determined beneath Phase 376(2)(g) of IPC. The incident of homicide happened after a mutual dispute between youths in village Kawal of Jansath Kotwali house in Muzaffarnagar. After this the location regularly deteriorated and one of the crucial worst riots within the historical past of Uttar Pradesh happened. About 60 other people died in those riots and about 50,000 other people had been compelled to are living in refugee camps.
Those riots affected the communal unity of western UP. The bitterness between the Muslim and Jat communities used to be such that family members may just now not be utterly commonplace until now. The location had long gone so out of hand that the state govt equipment virtually failed and peace used to be restored with the assistance of the military.
In October closing yr, BJP MLA Vikram Saini used to be convicted. At the side of 12 accused, he has been sentenced to 2 years every for nuisance and obstructing govt paintings. On the similar time, a effective of 10-10 thousand has additionally been imposed on all. 15 different accused within the case were acquitted for loss of proof.