Jul 14, 2012: Minor gangraped by minor & 2 others, held

TNN | Jul 14, 2012, 01.00AM IST

CHANDRAPUR: The Ramnagar police have arrested three accused, including a minor, in connection with abduction and gangrape of a minor girl. The trio committed the heinous act in Lohara jungle on Thursday evening and later filmed an MMS of their act also.

According to police sources, all three accused and the 14-year-old victim belong to Indira Nagar locality. The main accused, 17-year-old, on Thursday asked the victim to accompany him to Lohara jungle for sight seeing. When she denied, he forcibly took her on his bike to Lohara forest, eight km away from city, where his two friends - Pankaj Thakur (21) and Hanif Sheikh (23) - were waiting.

All three of them allegedly raped her and later filmed their act in mobile phone. The victim somehow managed to reach home late in the evening and narrated the incident to her parents. Later, her father filed complaint with the Ramnagar police station during midnight. The police immediately moved into action and launched manhunt for the accused.

Ramnagar police officer MD Sharnagat himself led the search operation and trio was picked up within an hour of filing the complaint. "All three accused were not available at their respective residences. But we soon traced their location and arrested them. A mobile phone having obscene MMS and photos of the victim has been seized from accused Thakur's possession," Sharnagat said.

The police have charged them with abduction, gangrape and recording obscene MMS. Thakur and Sheikh were produced before the court on Friday and were sent to police custody till July 17 while the minor accused was produced before juvenile court and was sent to remand home.
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