Ten days after a 16-year-old girl was abducted and assaulted in captivity by three boys in Aligarh, police rescued her and apprehended the accused, among them a minor and a woman, officials said on Tuesday. The perpetrators had allegedly held the teenager captive, force-feeding her multiple sleeping pills every day to render her unconscious, and then gang-raping her.
During this period, they even called the girl’s family and demanded a ransom. Subsequently, a team of 24 police personnel traced the mobile location and reached the accused on Monday.
The father of the survivor, resident of a colony in the Quarsi police station area, had filed a complaint on June 29, reporting the kidnapping of his minor daughter. Following this, a special team was formed under the supervision of ASP Amrit Jain.
“All the accused adults have been sent to jail following court orders. The minor accused has been sent to the juvenile home of Agra. The accused are part of a criminal gang. We are searching for one more person of the gang who is absconding for now,” the officer said.According to Nandikotkur police, the minor girl’s father lodged a missing complaint on Sunday, stating that his daughter, who was playing at Muchumarri park, was missing. Police searched everywhere in Muchumarri and questioned locals for information but couldn’t find the girl. They also pressed the dog squad into action.
The clues provided by the sniffer dog helped the police zero in on the three minor boys. The dog not only led the police to the scene of the crime but also stopped at the houses of the accused. After initial round of investigation, the minor boys were taken into custody. On questioning, the boys allegedly confessed to raping and killing the little girl. The accused told the police that after killing the girl, they pushed the body in an irrigation canal to hide their crime.
The three boys told the police that they spotted the girl playing near Muchumarri park. As she knew them by face, they persuaded her to come with them to play. They then gagged her near an isolated spot near Muchumarri irrigation project, and raped her one after the other. Fearing that they could be arrested if the girl complained to her parents about the rape, they killed her and pushed her body into the nearby canal and left the spot.