Shahjahanpur. A Dalit minor, who was guarding crops in Jalalabad area of Shahjahanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, was allegedly gang-raped by three youths of the same village. The police are interrogating the accused by taking them into custody.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Rural, Sanjeev Kumar Bajpai told Univarta on Tuesday that a 16-year-old girl, resident of a village in the area, was guarding the crops in the field near her house on Monday night when Veerbhan, Pramod and Sone Lal from the same village arrived and arrested her. Picked up and took him to the eucalyptus grove.
After this the accused raped the minor. Hearing the scream of the victim, the family members reached the spot but by then the three accused had fled away. Bajpai said that a report has been registered in the matter. The accused are being taken into custody and interrogated, while the victim has been sent to the medical college for medical examination.
