Patna: Three minor boys allegedly abducted and gang-raped a 12-year-old girl in a village under the jurisdiction of Masaurhi police station in Patna rural in the early hours of Friday.
The girl was returning to her home after attending a wedding ceremony at the village around 12.30am. A minor boy, who is her neighbour, forcibly took her to a nearby agriculture field where his two associates were waiting.
The trio raped the girl and threatened her with dire consequences if she reported the incident to the police.
The three boys fled the spot, leaving the girl bleeding profusely.
Her cries for help went unheeded because a public address system was blaring in the neighbourhood.
She somehow reached home and narrated her ordeal. Initially her family members tried to suppress the incident, but her mother would have none of it as one of the three offenders was known to the family. The girl’s mother along with some local residents reached the Masaurhi police station around 2am and lodged a complaint against the three accused.
A police team raided the village, around 6km south of the Masarauhi sub-divisional headquarters, and took two of the accused into custody.
During interrogation, the duo is learnt to have disclosed the names of their third associate, who is still at large.
Masaurhi sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Surendra Panjiar said that the girl, a Class V student of a government school, had been sent to the Patna Medical College and Hospital for medical examination
There has been a spate of rape cases in Bihar lately. On April 14 midnight, a 17-year-old girl from Hilsa in Nalanda district was allegedly gang-raped near GPO roundabout under the Kotwali police station area in Patna. While two of the accused — Chotan Kumar and Feku Kumar — were arrested a day after the incident, the other others — Monu Kumar and Bauwa Kumar — surrendered before at a special POCSO court here on Wednesday.
https://www.telegraphindia.com/states/bihar/gang-rape-now-in-patna-rural-224823
April 24, 2018 at 4:37 pm
The minors assaulting and raping girls is very pathetic and shameful and a matter of grave concern