The teenage sufferer was discovered mendacity unconscious (Representational)
Bhuj:
A 17-year-old lady was allegedly kidnapped and gang-raped after being pressured to devour country-made liquor on the outskirts of Bhuj city in Gujarat’s Kutch district, police mentioned on Sunday.
Four individuals have been arrested in reference to the crime, which befell on a farm on the foot of a hill in Bhujia space on March 16, Kutch West Superintendent of Police Saurabh Singh mentioned.
The teenage sufferer was discovered mendacity unconscious and rushed to a hospital by folks residing within the neighborhood, he mentioned.
“She had gone to the farm with a friend, where the accused made her consume liquor and also had it themselves, following which they gang-raped her. Based on her complaint, four people were arrested,” the SP mentioned.
“The victim remembers one person raping her, after which she fainted due to the effect of liquor. A second person has confessed to raping her. A probe is underway to find out if the other two accused also raped her while she was unconscious,” Mr Singh added.
The 4 accused have been charged by Bhuj B Division police beneath related sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in addition to provisions of the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he mentioned.
The girl has been raped by a couple of individual and medical reviews of the sufferer are awaited to determine if the remaining two accused additionally raped her, one other official concerned within the probe mentioned.
He recognized the accused as Hussain Kakal (35), Rahul Sathwara (19), Valji Vadhiyara (24) and Mahesh Maheshwari (20), all of whom had been remanded in police custody for 10 days.