Bihar: Accused makes rape video viral to stop girl’s marriage

PATNA: The video of a minor girl’s rape in Gopalganj district two years ago has been made viral by one of the five accused as he does not want her to marry someone else. Two of the five accused, all in their 20s now, are working in a Middle East country.
Gopalganj SP Anand Kumar has constituted a special investigation team headed by Hathua SDPO Naresh Kumar to arrest the accused, identified as Abhishek Sharma, Dipu Dubey, Nitesh Dubey, Lalu Thakur and Lalji Sharma. Police said Lalu and Lalji are working abroad. He said the video was leaked by Abhishek after he came to know that the girl was going to get married soon.
The SP said an FIR was registered at Kateya police station against the five youths on Monday on the victim’s written complaint.
SDPO Kumar said Abhishek was having a relation with the victim when the incident took place during Chhath at a village under Kateya police station area of Gopalganj. The victim was hardly 16-year-old then.
“The four other accused had caught Abhishek with the girl in an objectionable position and gang-raped her taking advantage of the situation. The victim had not approached the police due to various reasons,” he said.
The SDPO said the girl was now going to get married but Abhishek was blackmailing her to marry him instead. “The girl ignored him. He finally leaked the video with the motive to get her marriage cancelled. Infuriated after coming to know about her viral video, the victim went to Abhishek’s house and told him that she was going to approach the police. Abhishek has been absconding since then,” he said.
He said the victim then lodged an FIR against the five accused. The SDPO said it will take some time to arrest the two accused working abroad as they will have to be deported to India first.
“The SP will write to state police headquarters, which will inform the ministry of home affairs and the ministry of external affairs. Our embassy in the country concerned will be informed to further contact the government there for the duo’s deportation to India,” he said.
The SPDO said police need to gather passport, visa and details of the airport from where the two had taken the flights, in order to initiate their deportation process.