While a 22-year-old Chandigarh man has been sent to one-day police custody, search is on for his three accomplices for allegedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl from Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh.
“Salman used to work in a saloon, but was out of work for the past three months. He is a resident of Tin Colony, Sector 47,” said UT senior superintendent of police Nilambari Vijay Jagdale. “He was produced before court, which sent him to one-day police custody. We are looking for the three co-accused.”
The victim told police that she is a Class-5 dropout and was staying with her family in Parwanoo. She said she came in contact with Salman, alias Lucky, five months back.
She alleged that this was her first trip to the city. She was allegedly kept in a tin shed in an area under a railway overbridge as she had seen a train cross by.
The victim said she was raped by the accused along with his three
friends, whom she could identify. She was also beaten up by the accused
on November 4, after which she managed to escape on the pretext of going
to bathroom.
Police said a call was received at 1.45am on the night of November 4 about an assault on a minor girl. The victim was found crying by a person at the Sector-34 park. She had sought help from him and he had called the police control room. Around 2.15am, another call was made to the child helpline about the girl.
Salman was arrested from Faidan village on Saturday. He was booked under Sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage) and 376 (D) (gangrape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act at the Sector-34 police station.