An eight-year-old girl was raped in Basti district while in Etawah two sisters returning from a Mahila police station were abducted by three men and gang-raped during the last 24 hours.
In Basti, a 16-year-old boy and also a distant relative forced himself on the minor girl while her family members were not at home in a village in Dhubulia police station area on Sunday evening.
When the family members returned home shortly after, the victim narrated her ordeal after which her father called up the local police station. A police team immediately rushed to the location and admitted the girl to a clinic for treatment where her condition was stated to be stable.
A case was registered under Section 376 of IPC and provisions of POCSO Act and a hunt was underway for the juvenile accused.
In Etawah, a young woman accompanied by her sister visited the Mahila police station to lodge a complaint against her husband on Sunday evening. While they were returning to their native village at Saifai, a stranger offered them lift. On the way he stopped at a hotel and called one of his aides. Later one of them forced the sisters to drink alcohol and later took the intoxicated sisters to a shop and gang-raped them after downing the shutters. The sisters were also brutally beaten up by the accused so that they did not complain about the crime to the police.
The accused abandoned the sisters in the shop and were trying to flee when a police patrol asked them to stop. As they started fleeing, the police team chased and nabbed them.
The police said that while the arrests were made, they heard wails from a nearby shop that was half-closed. The police team entered the shop only to find the injured and scantily clad victims weeping. On learning about their ordeal, the victims were rushed to Etawah district hospital for medical examination. The victims later lodged an FIR in this connection at Saifai police station.