Noida: 16-year-old confined, raped by 3 over 51 days, manages to escape

NOIDA: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly kept confined at an undisclosed location for 51 days and repeatedly raped by three youths. The girl, who was allegedly taken to that place by two of the youths staying in her neighbourhood in Mamura, could finally escape and return home to narrate her ordeal to her parents.
Being illiterate, cops said she did not remember where she was kept but knows two of her tormentors. Family members of the girl alleged that despite repeated attempts to lodge a complaint, police refused to file one initially. Only after they approached the SP (crime), an FIR was lodged.
According to the complaint given by the girl’s father, who works in a factory, two of the accused — Chotu, a native of Chatarpur in Madhya Pradesh, and Suraj who belongs to Mahoba — went to his house and took her daughter into confidence in the first week of March.
“They kidnapped the girl and kept her confined in a room, where she was raped between March 2 and April 22. They had even threatened to kill her if she tried to flee. In their absence, the girl would be assaulted by Aditya, a resident of Sector 135 who would be present in the room. Aditya belongs to Banda district,” the complaint says.
The girl fled from the spot on April 22 and reached home somehow, it adds.
“She arrived in a dishevelled situation and narrated her ordeal to us. We then reached Phase III police and asked cops to lodge a complaint and get her medical test done, but the police made us sign on a paper. Later, no information was given to us and there was no headway in the probe,” the father said in the complaint.
Only on April 30, when the girl’s father gave a written complaint to Gautam Budh Nagar SP (crime) that an FIR was lodged under IPC sections 376 d (gangrape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 3/4 of the POCSO Act against the accused trio at the Phase III police station. And a medical test was conducted on Tuesday.
However, a police officer told TOI that the complainant allegedly had a compromise with the accused in the beginning.
Denying the allegations, the girl’s father said there was no compromise in the matter but rather, they signed the compromise papers after being misled by neighbours and others who told them their family honour would be lost and if the public got to know.
When contacted, Phase III SHO Akhilesh Tripathi said no paper was signed before police. “We have lodged an FIR. The girl’s statements will soon be recorded under CrPC 164,” he added.