Just three days after two minors were allegedly gangraped by a group of dacoits in Ramnagar in Nainital District, the same happened this time at landhaura in Roorkee in Haridwar district on Tuesday evening as two girls, including one four-year-old, were allegedly raped by their neighbours. Though police are yet to identify the culprits involved in the first incident two of the accused were arrested on Wednesday in connection with the gang rape of the four-year-old.
Police said the duo was in inebriated condition when they committed the crime. They were sent to jail after being produced in the court. The almost back-to back crimes on the minors have left the people of the state reeling under scare. Police acted after the survivors’ parents had registered complaints. Following this, cases under appropriate sections of IPC were registered against the accused in the Roorkee police station.
In the written complaint, the parents of the four-year-old stated that she was gangraped when she had gone to the field along with her father. While her father was working in the field she was playing in the neighbourhod. She had gone a little distance away from the field where her father was engaged in his work. She had then disappeared. Her father searched for her, but could not find her. He went home to find that she was not there too. later, she was found unconscious while lying at fields. After she had gained consciousness she narrated the incident. She stated that two youths from the neighbourhood had gangraped her in intoxicated state. Police conducted medical examination of the survivor. Roorkee CO SK Singh said that acting on the complaint, a team was formed to arrest the culprits. The accused were sent to jail after they were booked under appropriate sections of IPC in the Roorkee Police Station, he added.