Police stated on Monday that a class 10 student was raped by five youths, including her friends, after they took her to a hotel in Gurugram. Two of the five people suspected in the Saturday night incident were arrested on Monday, according to a police officer, news agency PTI reported.
According to the 14-year-old victim's mother's complaint, her daughter left the house about 12.30 p.m. on Saturday. She assumed her daughter had gone for a walk in the adjacent park.
"When she did not return for long we started searching for her but could not trace her. At around 10 am on Sunday my daughter was found near the house," according to the victim's mother's statement in the police report, PTI reported.
When asked where she had been all night, she told her mother that she had been brought to a hotel by her two friends on a bike, where the two teenagers and three others reportedly raped her, according to the police, who said that the accused also threatened to murder her if she told anybody.
An FIR was filed based on the complaint under IPC sections 376-D (gang rape), 506 (criminal intimidation), and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act.
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According to authorities, the girl was transferred to a civil hospital for medical evaluation, where doctors verified rape.
Deepak Saharan, DCP West, said two suspects were apprehended on Monday evening and are being questioned, while the other suspect is being sought, PTI reported.
According to the most recent government crime data, India recorded 31,677 rape cases in 2021, an average of 86 every day, while roughly 49 incidences of crime against women were reported every hour.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau's (NCRB) 'Crime in India 2021' report, the number of rape cases in 2020 was 28,046, while it was 32,033 in 2019. The NCRB functions under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
(With Inputs From PTI)