Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

RAJASTHAN: MINOR RAPED BY THREE, THROWN INTO DRY WELL

- HT Correspond­ent

JAIPUR: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped by three men in Rajasthan’s Karauli district and later found in a dry well, officials said on Monday.

The police have taken three accused into custody, the officials said.

The girl’s family has alleged that she took their cattle for grazing in a secluded forest area on Saturday, the officials said.

According to her father’s complaint, three men waylaid her in the forest area and gangraped her before throwing her inside the dry well, Karauli superinten­dent of police Mridul Kachawa said. When she did not return home till late evening, her family began a search for her, her father said in his complaint.

The girl was found inside the well on Sunday morning and

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