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  • 16-year-old Dalit girl abducted, raped in UP’s Fatehpur

    By PTI

    FATEHPUR: A 16-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly abducted and raped in the Jehanabad area here, police said on Saturday.

    The family of the girl filed a complaint with the police alleging that when she was sleeping in a shed outside her house on Thursday night, a 22-year-old man came and took her to his house and raped her, they said.

    The father of the girl, along with some villagers, rescued the girl on Friday morning from the man’s premises and informed police of the incident, Jehanabad Police Station SHO Keshavdas Verma said.

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    Police booked the accused under charges of rape and threatening to kill, and also under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the SC/ST Act, Verma said.

    The victim was sent to a hospital for medical examination, he said.

    The accused is absconding and efforts are on to arrest him, he said.

  • 17-year-old girl held captive, gangraped by three men in UP’s Mahoba

    By PTI

    MAHOBA: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by three men who kept her locked in a room for a day, police here said on Saturday.

    The teen, who works in a private company, was sexually assaulted on Thursday and made her escape on Friday while she was being taken to another place, police said.

    Efforts are on to nab the accused who fled the area.

    On Thursday, she was taken by a man, an employee at a nearby dak bungalow, to a room in a deserted area where she was raped by him and two of his friends, Station House Officer at Mahoba’s Kotwali police station Balram Singh said.

    The girl also alleged that they made a video of her, he said.

    The men locked her inside after raping her and went out, he said.

    On Friday, they came back.

    While one of them was taking her to another place on a motorcycle, she jumped off and shouted for help.

    Police registered a case on Friday on the complaint of the girl and her family members, Singh said.

    The girl has been sent for medical examination.