Minor abducted, gang raped over days; 3 held

HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI: A 13-year-old girl, who went missing on April 24, was allegedly repeatedly raped and sexually abused over the course of several days at multiple locations in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh before being rescued on May 2, police said on Wednesday, after arresting three persons and detaining a minor in connection with the case.

Deputy commissioner of police (south) Benita Mary Jaiker said a case on charges of kidnapping was registered on April 25, based on the parents’ complaint. She was rescued on May 2 after a woman, who saw her at Saket Metro station and recognised her from the ‘missing girl’ poster, informed the police.

Jaiker said on May 1, a day before the girl was found, they arrested three men -- Mohit (20), Akash (19) and Shahrukh (20) -and apprehended a minor after receiving a tip-off about the kidnapping and rape. When confronted, the accused allegedly admitted to the crime. They allegedly told police that on the day she went missing (April 24), the girl took an auto to go to the market . “The driver, Shahrukh, instead called two of his friends -- Akash and the minor boy -and took her to Okhla, where they gave her a spiked drink and raped her,” Jaiker said.

Police said the accused then brought her to Tigri’s slum colony where she was gang-raped by five persons. “The next day, she was taken to Kosi Kalan in Mathura and kept for a day. She was brought back to Tigri on April 26, where they kept her till April 30,” the DCP said.

According to police, the minor girl somehow managed to free herself and reached the Saket Metro station on May 2, from where she was rescued.