A 17-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by an unidentified youth at gunpoint in an agricultural field in North Delhi’s Burari area on Saturday night, police said on Monday.
The incident came to light after some locals spotted a boy lying in battered state at a pump house in Burari and informed police. After the boy told police that a gun-toting youth had thrashed him and abducted his friend, cops launched a search for the girl. They found her after two hours of intensive operation in a dishevelled state at an isolated agricultural field on the outskirts of Burari.
On the basis of information provided by one of the witnesess who had noticed the accused near the crime spot a few minutes before, police nabbed the accuse youth, who is a minor.
As per the statement given by the victim to police, she had gone to the pump house with the boy on a scooty. They had parked the vehicle and were sitting inside the pump house. “Around 8 pm, while they were sitting inside the pump house, the accused stopped on seeing the scooty. He ventured inside the empty pump house. The accused whipped out a pistol. Thrashed the youth and took away the girl at gunpoint,” said a senior police officer, privy to the investigation.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Jatin Narwal said, “We are verifying the age of accused.”
Medical examination of the girl confirmed rape. Police registered a case under relevant Sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and rape at the Burari police station, said police.