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Tribal teenage class 11th student girl gangraped by locals
Harda: A 16-year old tribal teenage girl was allegedly gangraped in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul district and threatened by locals not to file a police complaint, an official said today.
The Class 11 student and her family were also offered a compromise to prevent her from filing the complaint against the accused, he said.
However, the girl finally managed to reach neighbouring Harda district, around 125 kms from Betul, and filed a complaint with police last evening, almost two weeks after the incident, the official said.
The teenager was allegedly raped by five persons at Hardadadu village in Betul on January 11, Harda’s Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said.
The accused offered the victim a lift to her school on their motorcycles and then took her to an isolated place where they allegedly offered her a sedative-laced drink and raped her, Singh said.
16-year old tribal class 11th standard teenage girl gangraped by locals:
Later on reaching home, the victim narrated her ordeal to her father and grandmother, he said.
However, when her family members were going to the local police station, the villagers organised a meeting (panchayat) and asked them to accept a compromise in exchange of money and even threatened to kill them, if they filed a complaint, the SP said.
However, the girl, with the help of some relatives, reached the Harda city Kotwali police station last evening and filed the complaint.
“We have registered a case against the five accused, aged between 22 and 30, under relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act,” Singh said.
“The case diary would be sent to the police station concerned for further action,” he said.
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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story
The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.
In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).
The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.
The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.
Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.
In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.
The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.