Fb friend, aide rape 15-yr-old Y’nagar girl at gunpoint in car

KARNAL: A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by two people, including her 38-year-old Facebook friend, in Yamunanagar. The victim’s mother filed the police compliant, five days after the incident, which took place on intervening night of July 26 and 27.

In her complaint, she alleged that one of the accused, Praveen Kumar, 38, alias Pinnu, a resident of Shastri Colony of Yamunanagar became friends with her daughter on Facebook on July 25 and asked her to meet him.

“When she went to meet him on the evening July 26, he was sitting in a car with another person. They took her in the car and raped her at gunpoint,” the mother alleged. After the incident they left her near a park and she reached home late at night.

In her complaint, she mentioned that her daughter was in trauma since the incident. She said the two men had also threatened her daughter not to disclose the incident to anyone, saying they would eliminate her family.

The police have booked Praveen and another unknown person under Sections 376 D (gangrape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and SC-ST Act. Talking to Hindustan Times, Narinder Singh, in-charge of Yamunanagar city police station said that accused Praveen has been arrested by the police.

He was produced in the court and sent to one-day police remand. He said that the investigation was going on to get information about the other accused and said that he will be arrested soon.