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MEERUT: A 21-year-old girl in Muzaffarnagar’s Chapar area allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on Saturday evening, police said. According to the family, the girl was under constant depression over a compromise in a rape case five years ago. She was allegedly raped by her maternal uncle in Meerut ’s Daurala area in 2014. The family approached the police initially, but later struck a compromise with the alleged rapist, even before police could complete its initial probe.

This was not the end of the ordeal for the girl who was again gang-raped by three youths in Muzaffarnagar’s Kotwali area in 2015. All the three accused were arrested and sent to jail, police said. According to police, names of four persons, including that of the accused uncle, was scribbled on the left hand of the girl’s body. The three others are alleged to have abetted the alleged rape.

According to the recent complaint filed by the girl’s father, “She could not get over the horrific ordeal and wanted her tormentors to be punished which eventually forced her to take the extreme step.”

“Based on the complaint of the girl’s father, an FIR under section 306 (abatement to suicide) was registered against four named accused,” Muzaffarnagar SP (City) Satpal Antil said.

Police have also recovered a printed application addressed to SSP Muzaffarnagar on behalf of the girl, in which she had narrated her ordeal.

“The father had initially registered a written complaint of rape against his brother-in-law. Even before police could finish the initial probe, the father of the victim submitted in written that there was no crime,” SP Antil said.

Meanwhile, post-mortem report has stated death by hanging as cause of death.

Though prima facie it appears to be a case of suicide, police is claiming that they are not ruling out other possibilities also.

“Forensics team scourged the area for evidence and prints, and the investigation in the case is in full swing,” police said.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

