Gujarat Shocker: Class 5 Student Kidnapped And Raped By 16-Year-Old Instagram 'Friend' In Aravalli District
The teen boy has been sent to an observation home in Mehsana. Police will take action against him as per the Juvenile Justice Act.
A 10-year-old girl was kidnapped and raped by a 16-year-old boy she befriended on Intsagram in Gujarat. The girl, a class 5 student, went missing from he home in Dhansura village in Gujarat's Aravalli district on Tuesday following which her parents filed a kidnapping case.
The next day, police traced the minors with the help of human intelligence and technical sources. During investigation, police got to know that the girl was using Instagram on her mother's smartphone and that is where she got into contact with the boy, NDTV reported.
"When we interrogated the parents, we found the girl was using Instagram on her mother's smartphone. She came in contact with a 16-year-old boy on the social media platform. They used to chat on the app and also talk over the phone frequently. The boy kidnapped her, took her to his home and raped her," police said.
The survivor and her sister, also a minor, were actively using the popular social media application on their parents' phones. Police said they had created around seven Instagram accounts, but used only two of them.
The teen boy has been sent to an observation home in Mehsana. Police will take action against him as per the Juvenile Justice Act, the report said.
In another similar incident, an 11-year-old girl was abducted and raped in an industrial area in Gujarat's Bharuch district. After battling for life for a week, she succumbed to her injuries and later died at a government hospital on Monday evening.
The girl had suffered serious internal injuries in the sexual assault. She was undergoing primary treatment at the civil hospital in Ankleshwar, an industrial town in Bharuch district and was later referred to SSG Hospital in Vadodara. She suffered a cardiac arrest after which her condition deteriorated, PTI reported.
"The patient was stabilised after treatment, but at around 5:15 pm, she suffered another cardiac arrest. Doctors provided her with immediate treatment, but she was declared dead at 6:15 pm," Resident Medical Officer (RMO), SSG Hospital, Dr Hitendra Chauhan told PTI.
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