East Champaran, 18 July (HS). Last night, an attempt was made to rape a woman at gunpoint in a village of Kritpur Panchayat of Harsiddhi police station area of the district. When the woman resisted, she was threatened with murder. In this case, the victim woman has given an application in the police station, in which she has said that her husband stays at the bathan at night. She goes there with food every night. She was taking food from her house to the bathan at night.
Meanwhile, Arvind Yadav of Goithaan, near Om Prakash Mishra's Leechwani, was drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes with three-four youths. He came from behind and held her by his arms and started caressing her body. When she protested, he took out a pistol from his waist and placed it on her chest. He tried to rape her. When there was a delay in taking the food, her husband and son went out to look for her with a torch. When they arrived, they all started beating her. Meanwhile, Vijay Yadav and Arjun Yadav came and beat her up, freed her and ran away with her. The police have lodged an FIR in the case and are engaged in searching for the three accused.