In connection with the suspected kidnapping and gang rape of a 15-year-old girl from the Kansa area, police detained two men on Sunday night. On Monday, they also detained a young person who was almost 15 years old in connection with the case.
On December 17, police were notified of a complaint claiming that a girl, age 15, had been forcibly taken, imprisoned in a room, raped, and assaulted by the suspect, a resident of the neighbourhood.
According to the police, on Saturday the girl went to see one of the accused at his rental property close to her house. She was aware of the presence of the other two, who allegedly closed the room from the inside while they were also present. Police continued: “They afterwards assaulted and raped her.”
Later, the child was able to return home, where she told her family what had happened before they went to the police.
According to Santosh Kumar Shukla, station house officer of Kasna police station, police then filed a FIR against the accused, Kasna residents Shoaib Badshah (22) and Waseem (21), under IPC sections 376D (gang rape), 363 (punishment for kidnapping), 342 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing harm), and 34 (acts done by several people in furtherance of common intention). In addition to the POCSO Act, the SHO stated that the FIR also contains parts of the SC/ST Act.
As mentioned in Times of India, “We arrested them from near the EPIP company site in Kasna and later apprehended the juvenile. We produced the duo before the court and sent them to judicial custody. We produced the 15-year-old before the Child Welfare Committee(CWC) and sent him to the correction home,” Shukla said.
According to data from the National Crime Records Bureau issued on August 29, there were 1.5 lakh crimes against children in the nation in 2017. Police reported 53,874 of these cases, or one-third of them, under the Pocso Act. In 2021, UP recorded 7,129 POCSO cases.
(The victim’s identity has not been disclosed in order to respect her privacy and in accordance with the Supreme Court’s guidelines for cases involving sexual assault.)
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