Call it luck by chance. An 11-year-old school girl escaped from the clutch of five miscreants after the vehicle in which they were using for kidnapping her broke down on the outskirts of the capital city on Monday.
Annoyed with the abduction incident, victim’s family members and locals went on rampage and attacked the school van and set on fire.
Police said the incident took place when the girl, a resident of lambakheda village, as usual went to a Government school in the same village on foot on Monday morning. When she reached at certain point, the five miscreants in a school van belonged to Progressive International School accosted her. They asked her come along so that she could be dropped at the school, but she refused. On this, she was forcibly dragged into the van and had taken to a deserted area, but the vehicle broke down on the way. While all the miscreants were busy in mending the fault, the girl managed to give a slip to the abductors and reached home safely.
On Tuesday morning, father of the girl along with locals reached the Progressive International School and identified the driver and van used in the crime. The crowd beat up driver Rashid and handed him over to police that reached the spot later.
They also damaged the van and set it ablaze. later, on a complaint by the victim, the police have registered a case under Section 354 and 363 of the IPC and different sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. At the same time, the police have registered a case of physical assault, rioting and arson against unidentified persons on a complaint by driver Rashid.