Ranchi: Police have arrested two persons in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Pundaag area of the city. They said that the accused — Sarfaraz Ansari (25) and Md Amanullah alias Amaan (22) — would be forwarded to jail after Covid test.
Police added that Sarfaraz was known to the minor girl and he took her to Amaan’s house in Pundaag, where they reportedly committed the crime. A case in this connection was registered on Wednesday at the Lower Bazaar police station under Section 376(D) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 4 and 6 of the POCSO Act on the basis of a compliant filed by the girl’s father.
Meanwhile, police have recovered the body of a 19-year-old girl near Ratantungri under Dasham fall police station. The girl had gone missing from her village Dokapidhi on November 7. Bundu DSP Ajay Kumar said the girl’s boyfriend is the prime suspect in the case.