UP teen gang-raped, kept prisoner; Police did not lodge FIR for one week

Noida: In a shocking incident, a 16-year-old girl from Mamura in Uttar Pradesh was confined at an undisclosed location and repeatedly raped by three men for 51 days.

In a complaint filed by the girl’s father, he said that she was abducted by two young men residing in her neighbourhood and was raped between March 2 and April 22. They had threatened to kill her if she tried to flee.

According to a Times of India report, the girl’s father said that two of the accused rapists, Chotu, a native of Chatarpur in Madhya Pradesh and Suraj from Mahoba, went to his house in the first week of March and won his daughter’s trust. “They kidnapped her and kept her confined in a room, where she was repeatedly raped. While they were absent, the girl was assaulted by another man who was present in the room, Aditya, a resident of Sector 135,” the complaint says.

On April 22, the girl managed to flee from captivity and narrated her ordeal to her parents upon reaching home. They then approached the police to file a complaint.

The girl’s family has alleged that the police initially refused to file a complaint despite numerous tries. Out of frustration, on April 30, the girl’s father sent a written complaint to Gautam Budh Nagar SP (crime), after which an FIR was finally lodged.

The FIR was registered under IPC sections 376 d (gangrape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 3/4 of the POCSO Act.

A medical test on the girl was conducted on Tuesday.

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