College student gang-raped in Odisha’s Cuttack city; 6 held
Meanwhile, Odisha Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan, expressing deep anguish over the incident, reiterated the government’s zero-tolerance policy towards crime against women.
Feeling distressed after the gangrape, a teenaged girl ended her life by self-immolation at a village under Shivalakala police station of Bijnore district.
Initially, the police allegedly didn’t pay heed to the complaint of the victim’s family. It was only after senior officials intervened that one of the accused Tahir was arrested. Raids are being conducted to nab two others named in the FIR at Shivalakala police station of Bijnore.
Confirming of the arrest of Tahir, Bijnor ASP Dinesh Singh said police teams were looking for the other accused. “We have arrested one of the accused and rest two would be soon caught,” he said.
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As stated in the FIR lodged by the family members of the victim, the crime was committed on Tuesday night . The 16-year-old victim went to borrow some kitchen utensils from the house of her neighbour Tahir . At that time, Tahir was with his friends Sarfaraj and Nasir, who caught the girl and allegedly raped her taking turns.
She returned home and narrated the incident to her elder sister who went to neighbour’s house but by that time all three of them had left the house.
The tormented girl than set herself afire. The family members rushed her to a private hospital but she succumbed to her injuries late in the night.
The family approached the local police station to lodge a complaint, but the cops didn’t oblige them saying it was case of suicide.
It was only after the matter reached the senior officials that Tahir, Nisar and Sarfaraj were booked on the complaint of deceased girl’s family on Wednesday.
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