A 13-year-old girl was kidnapped from the outskirts of the State capital and later sexually assaulted in the neighbouring Raisen district.
According to Sukhi Sewania police, the victim is a resident of Balampur village and from there she was abducted on September 27 and was held captive in Begumganj area of Raisen. A team of Bhopal district police rescued the girl from the house she was held captive.
According to the police, the victim went to her farms on September 27 and never returned. The family after failing to find her lodged a ‘missing person’s complaint with the Sukhi Sewania police on the same day. During the investigation, it was found that two youths who came to the village for harvesting of Soyabean crop were also missing after September 27.
The whereabouts of the missing persons were searched. It was found that the two were residents of Begumganj under Raisen district. A police team was formed and the residents of the miscreants were raided in which the two were detained. When they were questioned they accepted to have kidnapped the victim and held her captive for the past couple of days.
The two miscreants were identified as Mahesh (22) and his maternal uncle Durga (31). Mahesh has accepted that he has sexually assaulted the victim while his uncle Durga helped him in kidnapping the victim and keeping her captive in his farms. Criminal record of the two has been searched. The accused works as labourers and used to move different places in search of work. Mahesh told that he lured the victim of marriage but the victim has denied that she was not acquainted with the accused. The police have registered a case under section 363 and 376 of the IPC and have started further investigation.