The accused Arif, Israr and Kalua Khan had gone to steal the buffaloes from the victim's house. When they were unsuccessful, they abducted the little girl instead and raped her in a nearby field.
The Yogi government in UP had given its permission on June 28 to slap sedition charges on 44 persons accused of inciting violence in Chingravati area of Bulandshahr
35-year-old Gopal was a member of a local cattle protection group and he had been involved in several cases where smuggling of stolen cattle was stopped by locals.