15-year-old gang-raped in MP
Yet another case of gang-rape has come to light from Madhya Pradesh, with the rape of a 15-year-old girl. The victim, a school going child, was abducted and gang-raped by seven persons, including her classmate, in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna district, police said on Saturday.
The police have arrested Amjiwan Meena (21), Sanjay Mali (28) and Mohit Meena (20), along with two minors in connection with the rape, the police said.
Guna District Collector Frank Noble, told journalists, “The class 10 student went missing on Friday and found unconscious by her father in an abandoned building in the night. The girl was taken to the primary health centre and later transferred to Guna Civil Hospital.” The victim’s condition is stable, the Collector added.
According to Additional Director General of Police (Gwalior Range) D Sreenivas Verma “The girl’s father informed that she did not return from her school on Friday. When he went there to inquire, he found out that she did not attend the school. He started searching and later found the girl in an unconscious state in an abandoned building near the school.”
In her statement, the girl told the police that the school administration asked her to go home as only a few students had come to the school. “When she was returning, one of her classmates, along with three others, stopped her and asked her to sit in a car. When she refused, they abducted her, took her to an abandoned building and raped her,” the ADGP said. “Three passers-by also raped her when she lost her consciousness. The girl was unable to identify two other accused while five of them were known to her. We are trying to identify and arrest the two other accused,” he added.
Based on the statements of the girl and her father, a First Information Report (FIR) has been recorded and accordingly a first information report (FIR) under sections 376 (rape), 376 D (gang rape), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 363 (abduction), 366 A (procuration of minor girl) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act has been registered at the Chachauda police station.
Meanwhile, local residents and political activists came out in large numbers to stage a protest on Saturday afternoon and demanded demolition of houses of all the accused.
The district administration served a notice of demolition of houses to the family members of the three accused — two named and her classmate — saying their houses were constructed on encroached land. District authorities claimed that the houses of three of the accused have been demolished.
Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ordered the police to take swift action in the case. “The rape accused of minor will get only capital punishment,” Chauhan told journalists.
Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president Kamal Nath demanded strict action against the accused in the “heinous incident”. “The state government is busy organising events while girls and women are not safe in the state,” he said. “This heinous incident has exposed the poor law-and-order situation (in the state). I demand strict action against the accused.”