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ROORKEE: Roorkee police have booked two people for allegedly gangraping a minor girl on Monday.

Although police have got a medical examination of the victim conducted, no arrest has been made yet.

Police suspected that the rape charges could be a concocted story, because families of both victim and accused, residents of Jourasi-Zabardastpur village on the Roorkee-Laksar road, had a long-standing dispute over the ownership of land.

According to reports, the father of the victim lodged a complaint with the Civil Lines police that his 15-year-old daughter had gone to an orchard in the village, along with his niece, on Monday morning, but Bhoora and Imran , who were hiding in a tin shed there, dragged the duo to an isolated place in the orchard and gagged.

Meanwhile, the victim’s niece somehow managed to free herself from the clutches of the accused, but they gangraped his daughter, the father claimed.

The Civil Lines police booked the accused under section 376 (punishment for rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the POCSO (child sex abuse) Act.

Two-three days before family members of both victim and accused clashed over the land ownership issue, said police, adding that that was why the case needed a multi-angel investigation before reaching to a conclusion.

Aishwarya Pal, inspector at the Civil Lines police station, said, “Though we have got the victim’s medical examination conducted, her statement is yet to be recorded before a magistrate. In the meantime, raids are being conducted to nab the accused, who seem to be at large.”