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SILCHAR: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by six minor boys in south Assam’s Karimganj district and all the accused have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.
All six boys are between 13 and 15 years old, according to police.
Police sources said the incident took place on November 1 in Kalinagar tea estate (under Ratabari constituency), about 102-km from Silchar. The matter came to light after an FIR was lodged by the girl’s father at the Ramkrishna Nagar police station on Monday (November 7).
“According to the complaint of the girl’s parents, she was alone at home when the incident took place. The boys forced their way into the house and raped them one by one. They also made videos of the act on their phones and assaulted her,” Additional Superintendent of Police, Karimganj, Partha Pratim Das said.
Based on the FIR, a case under sections of the Prevention of Child Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO), 2012 was registered and an investigation was initiated. On Monday night, the police conducted a combing operation in the tea garden and arrested six youths.
Officer-in-charge of Ramkrishna Nagar police station N. Nath said that those arrested belonged to the families of tea plantation workers aged between 13 and 15 years.
While the police took the young victim for a medical examination, blood samples and other evidence were sent for forensic examination. The young accused were brought before a court and sent to an observation home.
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Residents living in the tea plantation expressed their concern over the alleged act and demanded that the law should be applied to the criminals.
This is the second incident of alleged rape of a minor girl in Barak Valley in less than two months. On October 13, a 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 26-year-old man in Moynagarh under Udharbond police station in Cachar district.
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