Facebook friendship proved to be disastrous for a Meerut girl, who was gang raped by the web friends, including a BSP leader, in a moving car in Meerut on Saturday.
The police said the Class XII student was returning to her Shashtri Nagar house after attending the coaching classes when she was offered a lift after giving a reference of facebook friendship. After covering some distance, the black coloured SUV took a turn towards some abandoned area where the four young men gang-raped the girl. later they dumped girl near PVS mall.
They reached the girls home on Sunday threatened her and her younger brother not to report the matter to the police. The girl, then, narrated the incident to her family who took her to the Nauchandi police station.
A case under Section 376 of IPC has been registered against total four people — Amit Bhadana, Sumit Gurjar and two unidentified accomplices. Amit is said to be a BSP leader.
Though the girl has identified the two accused, police failed to nab them even after 48 hours had passed.
"We shall arrest the two accused-Amity Bandana and Sumit Gurjar, who had been identified by the girl," said Meerut SSP Deepak Kumar.