Bhopal

Hotel owner, 3 others nabbed for abducting and raping minor girls, two girls rescued

Staff Reporter

Bairagarh police nabbed four accused including a minor and hotel owner who kidnapped and raped minor girls, police rescued two minor girls from the accused who were trying to escape by train at Bhopal station platform number 1 and were nabbed by the team.

Police said that on May 21 the victim's mother reached to the police station Bairagarh and reported that two of her minor girls had been abducted by two boys. Based on the complaint police registered a case against the accused and alerted police across the state capital.

During the search, information was received that both the boys were standing towards the railway station platform no. 1 and girls were rescued.

Police have registered a case under section 366, 376, 376(2)(n) and 120B of the IPC and section 3 and 4 of the POCSO Act against Sameer Khan and Shafan Khan.

The two accused with the help of their friend Ayan Khan booked a hotel room in  Laxman Palace located on 80 feet road and raped the victims there.

In the crime a minor boy kept an eye when the accused were sexually assaulting the victims.

The hotel operator Ramraj Patel has been arrested for helping in the incident.

The hotel operator was running the hotel owned by Kailash Kushwaha on a rent of Rs 40,000 per month from January 2022. In this way, the hotel operator and the minor boy helped the accused by hatching a criminal conspiracy. In connection with which section 120B has been added in the case, all the three accused have been arrested, who are presented before the honorable court and the minor boy was presented in the Juvenile Court.