19-yr-old gang-raped on way back from tuition

CHANDIGARH: THE TEENAGER WAS ALLEGEDLY ABDUCTED BY THREE MEN — WHO LATER ALSO DRUGGED HER — FROM A BUS STOP IN MAHENDERGARH DISTRICT IN HARYANA

Three men accused of raping a 19-year-old student after drugging her in Haryana’s Mahendergarh district are on the run, police said on Friday. The teen was allegedly abducted from a bus stop in Kanina town on Wednesday when she was headed home from a coaching centre.

The mother of the victim said more than three youths were involved in her daughter’s gang rape. She said her daughter was in a state of shock after the incident and the accused were still “roaming freely.”

“The government talks about beti bachao-beti padhao, but is this the price one has to pay for getting our daughters educated? The accused are roaming freely but the police has failed to nab them,” she told reporters in her village, which falls in the neighbouring Rewari district.

Giving details of her daughter’s trauma, she said her daughter was abducted on Wednesday afternoon when she had gone to attend a coaching class, and was raped at a secluded place near a tube well.

“The police has failed to take any action. We were made to run from pillar to post before our complaint was taken. The FIR was registered at 1 am as police kept citing jurisdiction issues making us shuttle between Rewari and Kanina.

“All we want is justice,” the mother said.

Mahendergarh superintendent of police Vinod Kumar said the accused are on the run and efforts are on to arrest them. “Three youths have been named in the zero FIR, which was transferred to us by the Rewari police on Thursday,” Kumar said.

A zero FIR can be filed in any police station and can be later transferred to the concerned police station.

The accused youth, who are stated to be in the age group of 20-25 years, belong to the same village as the survivor, said Kanina station house officer Anirudh.

According to the FIR, the young woman had gone to attend a coaching class when she was abducted late Wednesday afternoon while she was waiting at a bus-stop in Kanina.

She was allegedly kidnapped by the accused who arrived in a