A local BJP leader and his influential sons allegedly stripped three girls belonging to a backward caste ... in Bilhaur near Kanpur.

According to eyewitnesses, the family members of the victims were brutally beaten up ...

Supporters gheraoed the Bilhaur police station and mounted pressure on the cops not to register a case. However, a case was registered ...

... The BJP leader Shiv Dularey Awasthi blocked the way to a temple by constructing a wall ... To take a short-cut Mamta was trying to jump over the wall where Awasthi and his sons reportedly dragged her down ... She was stripped and beaten till she lost consciousness ... Later (Awasthi) and his sons barged into Mamta's house and overpowered her two other sisters, Maya and Meena and beaten up ...

Ramlali and her family had been beaten up by the Aswasthis at least three times in the recent past. The BJP leaders were pressuring the police to register a case against Ramlali and her family, (the SP) said. (Source: The Hindustan times, 19 October, 1999)