The Uttar Pradesh police arrested three activists of the Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV), an organisation formed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on charges of gang rape and beating a police officer in Bareilly, on Tuesday.

According to Superintendent of Police, Bareily city, Rohit Singh Sajwan, the HYV activists were arrested on the complaint of a woman, a resident of the Ganeshnagar area.

After the activists of the affiliated Hindutva outfit were accused of lynching Ghulam Ahmed, a resident of Bulandshahr, for allegedly helping an inter-religious couple to elope then according to the complaint the HYV activists allegedly fought with a member of her family and later barged inside a house and indulged in gang rape misbehaved with her and assaulted her.

After both incidents surfaced in social media and then broadcast medias questioned police about law and order then the police arrested include Bareilly division president of HYV Jitendra Sharma, city unit chief of the outfit Pankaj and another HYV activist.

Police sources added when other HYV activists got to know about the arrests of their leaders, they barged inside the police station and attacked police personnel there.

Police Sources reported one sub-inspector by name Mayank Arora who was allegedly attacked by the HYV leaders inside the police station also complained in separate FIR and as result totally now three persons have been arrested.

In total Two FIRs were filed, one by police sub inspector and another by a woman who was gang raped by them. The investigation is on,” Mr. Sajwan said.

According to Government of India crime bureau statistics Uttarpradesh is the state where highest crime rate against women been committed and unchecked the figures are growing as years pass.