A 17-year-old minor rape victim took her life in Maharashtra’s Amravati on Saturday reportedly for the fear of her family being shamed. She was seven months pregnant.
The police have filed registered a case under relevant charges and arrested the accused.
The minor victim was found hanging at her home.
The incident was reported on a day when a 30-year-old woman, who was found lying unconscious at Khairani Road in the Saki Naka area on September 9 after allegedly being raped, died during the treatment at a city hospital, in Mumbai.
On Thursday, two lodge managers have been arrested in connection with the alleged abduction and gangrape of a 14-year-old girl in Pune. It took the number of persons arrested in the case to 16.
The 14-year-old girl, who was waiting at the Pune railway station to board a train to meet a friend after leaving home on August 31, was told by an autorickshaw driver that the train would be available the next day, after which he promised to find her accommodation for the night. However, he waylaid her and several of his associates, including auto-rickshaw drivers and two Class IV railway staff, gang-raped her at multiple places in the city, police had said.
“We intend to appoint a special public prosecutor in the case and as there is a provision in the POCSO Act itself, the case will be tried in a fast track court,” Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta said. According to police, the girl after being subjected to sexual assaults by the accused, headed to meet her friend. While investigating the missing complaint filed by the family, the police traced the girl to Chandigarh and was brought back and an offence was registered. “When the girl was brought back, she was in a mental shock. She was admitted to a hospital,” said a police officer from Pune police.
So far, 14 persons have been arrested in connection with the case. “On the basis of CCTV footage from the railway station area, the first accused – rickshaw driver – was held and later as the chain of events unfolded, other accused were apprehended,” the officer said.
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