According to police, the arrested woman identified as Geeta, a resident of Ludhiana, Punjab, lured a 15-year-old girl while her parents went to their native place and held her captive in Surat, Gujarat, for four months.
A youth was arrested on charges of molestation at a village within the Kotulpur PS area in Bankura.
Hundreds of villagers, primarily women, blocked the road connecting Falakata in Alipurduar district today to protest the alleged rape and murder of a five-year-old girl.
The incident occurred at the Siddh Baba hillock near the Puchi village on Tuesday.
On allegations of negligence from police officers on rape and murder of a 9-year-old school girl, a mob set a police outpost and vehicles on fire at Mahishmari Joynagar in South 24-Parganas, this morning.
The Police have suspected that the accused also tried to rape the girl.
As per the reports, the mob demanded the handover of the accused so they could punish them with their own hands and bring justice to the victim.
A rape convict should be punished by no other means than surgical castration. A death penalty ends with the hanging. The guilty individual does not survive to regret. Capital punishment has very little utility as a deterrent to other men
Additional district and sessions judge, who is also a designated POCSO judge in Hapur, Beena Narayan, on Monday pronounced the judgment in the rape case dated August in the Garh area of district Hapur.
'The incident took place a week back, but the police were informed about the alleged gang rape on Sunday,' Superintendent of Police (Kanpur Dehat) Keshav Kumar Choudhary said.
