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Gwalior/Madhya Pradesh: In a chilling turn of events, 15-year-old minor girl was allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint in front of her parents by three men on Monday night in Gwalior district of Madhya Pradesh, has prompted swift action from the authorities.
A senior official said on Wednesday that the vile and disturbing incident unfolded in a village in the Bhanwarpur area of Gwalior district on Monday night but a police complaint in this regard was filed two days later.
The official said the accused assaulted the young girl’s parents and then gangraped her at gunpoint, adding that the family had moved into the locality only a month ago. “An incident occurred with a minor girl and her family in a village under Bhanwarpur police station limits in the district on Monday night in which the minor was gang raped and her parents were assaulted,” Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Gajendra Vardhaman told sources.
The ASP said that based on the complaint registered by the victim’s parents, the police have registered a case against three accused under the charges of sections 323, 376, 376d, 458, 506 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the stringent POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, and started investigation in the case.
Sources report quoting another senior police officer said one accused has been arrested by the police while two others are at large and police has launched a manhunt to nab them at the earliest. ASP Meena said the arrested suspect is being interrogated and further investigation into the matter is underway.
Similar incident happened in past, a 10-year-old girl, who lives in an orphanage, was allegedly raped in Odisha’s Cuttack when she was returning from school. According to the police, the incident happened in the College Square area near the Cuttack railway station on Monday afternoon when the girl was returning to the orphanage from school.
