In yet another case of sexual assault reported from Singrauli, two minors gang-raped a seven-year-old girl.
Critically injured in the sexual assault, the victim was hospitalised while the minor accused have been nabbed by the police.
The incident has been reported from Sarai police station area of Singrauli district. The physicians treating the girl said the victim has been kept under medical observation at district hospital.
The girl, the two accused and some other kids had gone to a pond in their village for a bath. After the other kids left and the girl was alone, the two minors raped the girl and fled from the spot.
Traumatised and inconsolable, the girl reached her home and narrated the ordeal to parents and also told them the names of the perpetrators. The family the intimated the police which nabbed the youths who were planning to flee somewhere else.
Abhijeet Ranjan the Superintendent of Police Singrauli told the media that the youths have been nabbed by the police and a team led by SDO Police have been formed to probe into the matter. The officer said that the victim and accused minors are neighbours.
The condition of the girl is now stable, said the cop adding the district hospital has been instructed to offer best possible cure to the ailing girl.
The incident comes close on the heels of three rapes of minor girls in Ujjain, Bhopal and Jabalpur following which the police in Madhya Pradesh have issued extensive guidelines for girl safety.