Sukhmeet Bhasin

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, August 12

Three persons have been booked for raping a 16-year-old girl at Kotli Khurd village in Maur area of the district.

In a complaint filed by victim’s mother, she stated that on Monday, when her daughter, who studies in class IX, was going to her school, the accused identified as Badal Singh, Gora Singh and Sandeep Singh, residents of Kotli Khurd village abducted her in a car and took her to a room in fields at Kotli Khurd village where they gang-raped and threatened her. Later, they dropped the victim to the Maur Mandi.

Investigating officer (IO) SI Bikkar Singh said in the initial investigation they have found that the victim stepped out of her school bus outside her school at 8 am in the morning and the accused named Badal Singh called the girl and told her that she should come with them in a car as her mother had got seriously ill. The girl replied them that she would not go with them, and that she would first inform the school officials. On this, the accused abducted the girl and put her into their car.

He stated that later, they took the girl to a tube well room situated in the field at Kotli Khurd village. This field is taken on the contract by Badal Singh from Nirmal Singh, where the all three accused gang-raped her repeatedly and later dropped her at Maur Mandi.

Police officials also stated that after dropping her, the accused fled away. Later, the victim told about the incident to her parents, who immediately took the girl to the Civil Hospital, Bathinda, where her medical was done and gang-rape was confirmed in the report.

He also claimed that various raids have been made by the police party at houses of the accused to arrest them, but could not arrest anyone because they are absconding.

A case under Sections 376 D, 342, 506 of IPC and Sections 3, 4 of the protection of Children Sexually Act, 2012 have been registered against all the accused at Maur police station.