Four youth raped a minor girl in the Bindukhatta area and made a clipping of the incident on the mobile phone. The four culprits escaped after threatening the family members of the victim.
After the victim’s family lodged a police complaint, her medical examination was conducted late on Saturday night after which the police registered a case under various sections and raided various places in search of the rapists in vain. Bindukhatta residents Anand Joshi, Pappu Rawat, Dilip Mehra and Haldwani resident Anil Gupta allegedly lured the minor to the woods in Baudkhatta where they gang-raped her and made a clipping using a mobile phone. When the girl tried to resist them, they beat her and threatened to kill her before escaping from the site.
The traumatised girl informed her family members about her harrowing ordeal after which the family members of the victim lodged an FIR on Saturday night in the Kotwali. The police have lodged a case under various sections of the IPC and the SC-ST Act. later, the police raided the addresses of the four rape accused but could not trace them. Two police teams have now been formed and the search for the four accused has been stepped up. The police circle officer GS Tamta said that the youth accused of rape will be arrested soon by the police. The four men had not been arrested till the time of this report being filed. This incident has once again raised concerns about the security of women and girls in this area.