Tribal girl raped by 10 in J’khand

Rajesh Kumar Pandey@timesgroup.com

Dumka:28.03.2020

A 16-year-old tribal girl was allegedly gang-raped by 10 men in a forest area under the Gopikandar police station in Jharkhand’s Dumka district on Tuesday. The crime came to light on Thursday after the girl lodged an FIR. No one has been arrested in the case so far.

In her statement to the police, the survivor said that she was on her way home from Dumka, where she studied at a college, when she called up an acquaintance, Prasannjit Hansda, who lives in Karudih village, to take her home. Hansda arrived along with a friend on a motorbike and the trio headed towards her village.

The girl said Hansda, instead of taking the usual route, took a different one “because there was police patrol on the usual route to enforce the nationwide lockdown”. He stopped the bike near a forest on the pretext of relieving himself while she and his friend waited. After some time, Hansda arrived with eight other people on bikes and dragged the teenager to the forest and took turns to rape her. The survivor lay unconscious at the crime spot throughout Tuesday night and reached home on Wednesday morning and narrated the incident to her family.

Dumka SP YS Ramesh said, “Our investigation is on. We will soon nab the culprits.”