Patna: Police identifies victim and four accused youths in rape case

PATNA: Police on Friday evening finally ascertained identity of the victim and the four youths shown in a viral video in which the one of them was shows raping a girl. Neither the identity of victim, accused youths, time or place of occurrence was known to police yet.
Patna zonal IG Nayyar Hasnain Khan said the victim is originally a native of Jehanabad district and the incident took place near Narayanpur Musahari under Naubatpur police station in Patna.

“The incident took place at least three to four months back and the video became viral in first week of this month,” Khan said.

Khan also said the four youths visible in the video were also identified, were also of Naubatpur area.

“After preliminary investigation, it has surfaced that the youths visible in the video were daily wagers and had fled to Chennai after the incident,” he said.

The video surfaced before police just couple of days after Jehanabad viral video of disrobing and sexually assaulting a minor girl which went on April 29.

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) had also written letter to Khan following which he had alerted the police of entire zone consisting of 11 district to ascertain identity of victim and accused youths as dialect heard in the video is spoken in Magadh area.

In the video, one of the youths was showing raping the victim while she kept begging for mercy. The youth was also shown making offer to his associates to rape her.

A zero FIR was lodged with Kotwali police station of Gaya district on May 11 under Sections 376 (rape), 354C (voyeurism) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 67 (publishing or transmitting electronic form of any material containing sexually explicit act) of Information-Technology (IT) Act. According to rules, now the FIR would be transferred to Naubatpur police station as incident took place under its jurisdiction.

Khan said soon police would get the statement of the victim recorded before a magistrate. “The girl is married at present. Police were ascertaining if she married with anyone in the video or she was already married when the incident took place,” Khan added.