Lucknow, Jul 11; In a barbaric act, the tongue of a teenage gangrape victim was cut off by the rapist's brother and friend in Pratapgarh today, two weeks before she was to depose in court on July 24. The girl is now battling for her life in a hospital.
The teenager was gangraped in December last year by a young man Lavlesh and his friends. Her family made several rounds to the local police station, before the police filed an FIR against three persons on January 22, arrested Lavlesh and sent him to jail.
The victim was to depose in court on July 24 under Sec 164 of Criminal Procedure Code. But Lavlesh's brother Lalaji and his cousin Kundan used a sharp knife and cut off the tongue of the girl.
