August 17, 2020: Three teenagers have been booked and arrested for raping a teenage girl at a village in the Biswan Police Station area of Sitapur in the intervening night of August 15 and August 16. "Medical examination of the victim has been conducted," Sitapur ASP (North) Rajiv Dikshit said. A case has been registered against the accused under the POCSO Act and investigation is being carried out.

Meanwhile, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Prasad Singh slammed the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh over the incident and said that the BJP government is unable to prevent crimes against women in the state and the Centre must look into it.

A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped and murdered on August 14 in Lakhimpur Kheri. The girl was allegedly raped and murdered in Isanagar in Lakhimpur Kheri on Friday. Later, the police recovered her body from a sugarcane field in Isanagar.