- The Station House Officer (SHO), Tilakdhari Saroj, who was arrested on the charge of raping a gang-rape victim minor girl, was sent to a 14-day judicial custody on Thursday.
- The Prayagraj Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Prem Prakash said that the SHO was arrested from near the Allahabad HC. He said that on a tip off from his Kanpur counterpart, a police team was dispatched who searched for Saroj on the basis of his mobile phone location. The official also informed that Saroj was changing his phone at the time of the arrest.
- Police sources suggest that the minor girl, who is 13 years old, was lured by 4 men to Bhopal, where she was gang-raped for 3 days, and then was left near the Pali police station, where she was again raped by the said SHO. All the six accused in the case have been sent to jail after Court’s orders.
- The incident came to light when the victim narrated her ordeal to an NGO, which approached the Superintendent of Police.
- It has been reported that initially the SHO Saroj had handed the victim over to her aunt, but later she was called back to the police station on the pretext of recording her statement, and was then allegedly raped by the Saroj.
- An FIR was lodged in the matter under sections 363, 376, 376B, 120B of IPC and the POCSO Act, among others. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has already issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary and Director General of Police, asking them to submit a report within a time of 4 weeks.
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