The condition of a minor girl was critical after she was gang-raped in Gorakhpur.

She was admitted to the medical college hospital and the local police registered a case and claimed to have detained a suspect.

The cops will record the statement of the victim before a magistrate before initiating further legal action.

According to reports, three youths forcibly took a 15-year-old girl inside a closed factory in Kusamhi forest under Khorabar police station in Gorakhpur on Tuesday. It is alleged that the girl was kept hostage for the whole night and the youths raped her one by one after which her condition deteriorated due to excessive bleeding. The girl was admitted to the emergency ward of the district hospital in a critical condition from where she was referred to the medical college hospital.

The police registered a case against Rajan Rajbhar, nephew of the sitting gram pradhan, and took him in custody. The villagers claimed that Rajan lured the victim from Khorabar area and took her to the closed factory. On Tuesday night, Rajan along with two of his accomplices raped the girl after taking her hostage and also thrashed her when she protested. 

On regaining consciousness on Wednesday morning, the girl raised an alarm following which a villager saw her and immediately called her family members. She was shifted to hospital and the local police were informed of the incident.

Relatives of the victims claimed that two more accused along with local pradhan’s nephew were involved in the incident but the police registered a case against only the nephew.

Circle Officer of Cantonment, Yogendra Singh, said that the accused had been taken into custody after registering a case. He said that the case was being investigated and action would be taken on the basis of investigation.

Meanwhile, a teenage student, who was earlier abducted by a youth from Sultanpur and was set ablaze after being gang-raped in Surat, succumbed to her injuries after two months of ordeal at a hospital in Lucknow on Tuesday.

At the end of January, a youth had kidnapped the girl student and gang-raped her along with his accomplice after taking her to Surat. On protesting, she was burnt by the accused who poured petrol on her. She was undergoing treatment in Lucknow.

Police have sent two accused to jail in this case. Police said on January 30, the girl, who belonged to Jaisinghpur Kotwali area, was abducted by Mahavir alias Beere of Bahri village in Kotwali area, with the help of some others. The main abductor had taken her to Surat.

On the complaint of the father, a case of kidnapping was registered against the youth and others. Two months later, on March 28, Mahavir and his associates raped the girl and when she protested, the accused poured petrol on her and burnt her. The accused himself informed the girl’s father about the incident on the phone. After this, on March 29, the victim’s father met Superintendent of Police Somen Verma and narrated the incident. On the orders of the SP, a police team went to the hospital in Surat and brought back the girl in a critical condition. Then her treatment started at SPM (Civil) Hospital in Lucknow.

The SP formed three teams under the leadership of CO Prashant Singh that raided Surat and other places to arrest the accused. The police arrested Mahaveer alias Beere and Dhaniram and sent them to jail. The student, who was burnt up to 60 per cent, was brought back home on May 16. When suddenly her health deteriorated on Tuesday afternoon, the kin took her to hospital where she died during treatment.