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BHOPAL: A 14-year-old hearing and speech impaired girl was gang-raped for hours by two youths - including a minor - in Rewa district on Monday, her ordeal ending only when her parents and villagers came looking and caught the rapists in the act.

Police are trying to get her statement recorded through an interpreter. The accused - 22-year-old Deepak Saket and a 17-year-old - have been arrested under POCSO Act. From what they have learnt from the girl so far, she was playing near her house around 9pm when she was drawn by the bright lights of an event being held nearby.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

