Uttar Pradesh: Teen girl gang-raped, tortured; two accused held

GORAKHPUR: A teenage girl was reportedly gang-raped and burnt with cigarettes by two men in Gola area of Gorakhpur district on Friday night. Police arrested both the accused on Sunday after launching a manhunt for them.
A case was registered on Saturday on the written complaint of the survivor’s mother and a hunt was launched to arrest the two accused, said police officials.
The girl, daughter of a brick kiln worker, was found lying unconscious behind bushes on Saturday, and is undergoing treatment at the district hospital.
The teen survivor’s mother filed a complaint against a named and one unidentified person and a case has been registered against both, said police.
Local police sources said, the girl who is daughter of a brick kiln labourer, had gone out to get water from a hand pump on Friday night, when two men on a motorcycle forcefully carried her inside a hut near a pond in the village and raped her.
They also tortured her and burnt her with cigarettes. When the teen girl became unconscious, the two assailants escaped.
The survivor identified one accused as Arjun.
“A case was registered under Pocso Act and sections related to kidnapping and gangrape on the complaint of the survivor’s mother. Police teams started conducting raids and arrested accused Arjun of Debripar village and his friend Mahesh alias Chotu,” said SSP Sunil Kumar Gupta.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)