At present, Kanpur Dehat is linked with National highways numbers 14 and 27, while the country’s busiest rail route, Delhi to Howrah, passes through the district.
Circle Officer, Bhognipur, Prabhat Kumar said the accused husband, Ram Kumar, a street vendor, asked the police to visit his house where his wife Uma's body was lying.
'The incident took place a week back, but the police were informed about the alleged gang rape on Sunday,' Superintendent of Police (Kanpur Dehat) Keshav Kumar Choudhary said.
The Behmai massacre that shook the country took place on February 14, 1981 when the then bandit queen Phoolan Devi gunned down 20 Thakurs of the Behmai village in Kanpur Dehat.