Four minors among 8 held for gang rape of two tribal girls in Jharkhand's Giridih
Giridih (PTI): Eight people, including four minors, were apprehended in Jharkhand's Giridih district for allegedly raping two tribal girls who were returning home after watching a 'jatra', police said on Thursday.
The incident happened in the Khukhra police station area on the night of January 25, they said.
SP Vimal Kumar said a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was set up to probe the gang-rape of the two girls, aged 12 and 17.
The SIT, led by SDPO (Dumri) Sumit Prasad, nabbed four men and four juveniles in conflict with law for their involvement in the crime, he said.
All eight have confessed, he claimed, adding that while the four men were remanded to judicial custody on Thursday, the minors were lodged at the remand home.
"Both the girls are medically fit, and the 17-year-old also appeared for matriculation examination," the SDPO said.
The SP said the arrests were made on the basis of clues provided by the dog squad and Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) team, besides technical surveillance.
"We also recovered a pair of jeans pant of one of the accused left behind at the scene," he said.
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3 held, hunt on for 4 accomplices after they kidnap, assault and urinate on man in Bhopal
Bhopal (PTI): Police have registered a case against seven persons and arrested three of them for allegedly kidnapping, assaulting and urinating on a 22-year-old man in Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal, officials said on Thursday.
The incident occurred during the intervening night of April 26 and 27 in an area located under the Hanumanganj police station limits, an official said.
One of the accused urinated on the face of the victim and captured a video of the act, which was later circulated on social media to humiliate him, he said.
"A complaint in this connection was lodged by Jaswant Markam (22), a resident of Kamla Nagar, based on which a case was registered against seven persons under sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and police have arrested three of them, including one Prem Thapa," Bhopal Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said.
Three police teams have been formed and the remaining suspects will be apprehended soon, he said.
During the intervening night of Sunday and Monday, Markam was at the local bus stand with a friend when around 4 am, the accused took him away on the pretext of discussing something with him. They asked him about his neighbour and friend Aniket. When he refused to provide any information, they started assaulting him, the police said.
The accused then took him to a forest in Karond area, where he was stripped and severely thrashed, they said.
When the man began to lose consciousness, one of the accused urinated on his face and made a video of the act, which was circulated on social media to humiliate him and spread terror, according to the police.
The accused called Markam's friend around 5 am to inform him about his condition. The victim was subsequently admitted to a hospital, the officials said, adding that the viral video was also being investigated.
Responding to a query, Hanumanganj police station in-charge Awdhesh Bhadoria said if the victim was found to be from the tribal community, then relevant sections will be invoked against the accused.
At present, the police are probing the incident and search is on to arrest the remaining accused, he added.
In 2023, a man had urinated on a tribal youth in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh. A video of the incident had gone viral on social media platforms and created a controversy.
