Two minor girls were allegedly raped by two youths when the victims had run away from their residence in East Delhi’s Anand Vihar area around 11 days ago. The victims were found in a hotel in Haldwani district in Uttarakhand, police said on Friday.
The sisters, aged 15 and 17, live with their maternal uncle’s family in Anand Vihar. Their mother had divorced their father and later remarried. After their father passed away around two years ago, they moved into their maternal uncle’s house. On June 12, they fled from their uncle’s residence, following which a missing complaint was registered with the police.
During their search, the mobile number of one of them was traced to Haldwani in Uttarakhand on Thursday. A team was sent there and the girls were found in a hotel with the youths, who are brothers, whom they accused of raping them.
Police said the girls had boarded a bus on June 12 night in which they met the brother duo, aged 24 and 27, and befriended each other.
The accused introduced themselves as entrepreneurs in the field of event management and promised them jobs. They convinced the minors to accompany them to Nainital, where they forced themselves on the sisters, police said.
After around six days they returned to Haldwani and booked a hotel. One of the girls switched on her mobile phone there and the number was traced by the police, a senior official said.
The accused, natives of Bareily in UP, have been booked on charges of rape and relevant sections of POCSO Act, a senior police official said.