Her parents, who are brick kiln workers, found her body the next day. The police said a case has been registered against two men, who have been arrested and sent to jail.
Gorakhpur| Two men allegedly raped a teenager and then singed her body with cigarette butts in eastern Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district on Friday. Her parents, who are brick kiln workers, found her body the next day. The police said a case has been registered against two men, who have been arrested and sent to jail.
As per NDTV, a senior official said that that the police is still awaiting the medical report of the girl and said that only a doctor can confirm whether the injuries on the girl’s body are from cigarette butts.
Police official Vipul Shrivastava, in a video statement released on Twitter, said two men have been arrested and are being charged with serious sections of the law, including rape and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
“Both accused have been arrested. The main accused is a man named Arjun who lives in a village near the incident spot. His accomplice, Chotu, has also been arrested,” Shrivastava said.
The mother of the girl, in a written complaint to the police, has said the girl went missing from their home at around 8 pm on Friday when she had gone to a hand pump in the village to collect water. the family kept searching for her the girl and found her next morning at 5 AM.
“My daughter told me that the accused abducted her, raped her overnight and then burnt her body using cigarette butts. My daughter is in a bad shape, ” her mother has said in a complaint.
“After raping her , the accused have inflicted burn injuries on her body with a cigarette,” her father told reporters.
Gorakhpur’s police chief Sunil Gupta, in a parallel development, was transferred on Sunday night, along with the police chiefs of six other UP districts.
Earlier, in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district, a 13-year-old girl was raped and killed and her body found in a sugarcane field, the police said on Saturday, in another horrendous incident in the state in recent days.
Uttar Pradesh has been under heavy fire for the law and order situation prevailing in the state.
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