The denizens of Hazaribagh were stunned on Thursday as they came to know that a teenaged girl was held hostage and gang raped for three days in the town area. The sixteen-year-old girl had gone missing on August 26 evening. Her father had reported about her missing on August 27 but police have allegedly done precious little.
The victim, who returned home on Thursday, told the police that she was gang raped by nine miscreants for last two days in a vacant bungalow in front of her house.
SP Manoj Kaushik told The Pioneer that one accused was arrested. Teams have been constituted to nab the rest, he added. The SP said that the main accused of this gang-rape case is Bhunnu, who is son of DSP Arjun Ram, presently posted at Chatra in the Special Branch. Police identified his three friends -- Annu, Basu and Nitesh.
The victim stated that in the evening of August 26, Bhunnu and his friends forcibly took her in the vacant bungalow where they raped her. Some more miscreants joined them the next day. In the evening, they gagged and took her to local lake. They kept her inside the bungalow for two days and they fled leaving her alone on Thursday morning.
The bungalow, where the incident occurred, is said to be owned by a high profile businessman who resides at Kolkata. Here a caretaker lives and now police is looking into every aspects of the case. Meanwhile the police have sent the victim for medical examination.
The news spread in the town like wildfire and a large crowd gathered in front of the Sadar PS. They shouted anti-police slogans and demand immediate arrest of DSP’s son.
Some months ago the Sadar Police had taken the DSP’s son in the custody in a case and at that time the DSP had alleged that the OIC of Sadar PS Dinesh Kumar Singh of being vindictive due to difference of opinion in some departmental issues.