Jaipur: Rape cases are making headlines almost every week in Rajasthan, the most recent being the harrowing tale of a 14-year-old girl allegedly being gangraped by neighbours in Alwar.
In an FIR lodged on Saturday in the Barodameo police station in Alwar district, the mother of the girl has accused two men of raping her daughter and circulating her photographs.
The incident took place on July 18 in Sheetal village when a woman staying in their neighbourhood took the girl to her house where her husband and another man raped her. The husband also recorded the crime against the minor, the girl’s mother has alleged.
The police says that a few days after this incident, another man blackmailed the girl into meeting him in private on the threat that he would circulate her photographs.
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“An FIR is lodged under Section 376D (gangrape), relevant section of the POSCO Act and the IT Act on Saturday after the mother of the minor informed the police,” Surendra Malik, sub-inspector at the Barodameo police station in Alwar told The Wire.
Three out of the four accused in the case, including the first two men who allegedly raped her, have been arrested. The woman has been charged with abetting gangrape.
Speaking to The Wire, Alwar superintendent of police Paris Deshmukh said, “Soon after the FIR was lodged, police officers from the Aravali Vihar, Barodameo, Laxmangarh and Kathumar police stations reached Allahabad to nab one of the men. He is being brought to Rajasthan. The husband and wife who were also absconding have been arrested.”
The fourth suspect is still at large.
A few months ago, a woman in Alwar was gangraped in front of her husband. After widespread outrage, the Congress government offered the post of police constable to the woman.
