A man was allegedly beaten to death for protesting against his daughter's harassment in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha district. The girl had earlier complained to her father about being harassed by some youths in their neighbourhood.
On Wednesday, the man raised the issue with the parents of an accused. According to police, the accused and his friends attacked the victim after an argument and allegedly beat him to death. The man was declared dead at a government hospital.
A case of murder has been filed and the investigating officers have arrested one of the accused. The girl is class nine student of a government school. In her statement, the girl told police that she and her cousin were regularly harassed by two of their neighbours and their friends. The girls were stalked when they left home for school.
The incident is another in a string of cases of deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh. The state's law and order had come under scanner after a woman and her minor daughter were gang-raped in Bulandshahr district. They were travelling with their family from Noida when they were attacked by highway robbers.
Last month, a girl and her father were also beaten up in Sambhal district after they tried to get drinking water from a temple. They were Dalits. In poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, crime, women's and Dalit's rights and the communal tensions are likely to feature big in the 2017 elections.
