Source – thewire.in
New Delhi: A mob in the Kaimur district of Bihar turned violent on Monday after a video of a 17-year-old girl gang-raped by four men in Bihar was released by one of the accused on Saturday. The girl was waiting to return home from her coaching classes when the accused persuaded her to drop by a nearby parked car. Later, four men took turns to rape her in the moving vehicle.
The offence went unreported for a week as the survivor had been threatened by the accused that they would upload the video on social networking sites if she reported anything to the police. During this time, the accused again tried to sexually exploit her. Eventually, on Saturday, the accused made the video viral.
As per the SP, two of the four accused – Arbaaz Daroga alias Kallu and Sonu Shahwaz – have been arrested and a Special Investigation Team (SIT) is formed to nab the remaining two.
Protesting the incident, a mob pelted stones at the house of the accused in the Mohania area and torched makeshift shops and motorbikes of a particular community. Some four-wheelers were also heavily damaged.
In order to control the situation, Kaimur district magistrate and superintendent of police Dilnawaz Ahmed organised a peace committee meeting and appealed to the communities to maintain communal harmony in the town.
“The police swung into action and tried to ascertain the place of occurrence and the identity of the accused. On Sunday night, two of the accused were arrested,” Mohania SDPO Rajendra Singh told the Times of India.
The accused have been booked under various sections of the IPC, including wrongful confinement, gang rape and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The SDJM court at Bhabhua recorded the survivor’s statement under Section 164 of the CrPC and sent her to the Sadar hospital for medical examination.
Three of the four accused have been identified in the video, which has been sent to the forensic science laboratory in Patna, while the fourth accused has been identified by the survivor.
“My repeated requests to spare me went on deaf ears as the accused kept on repeating the crime. At one point of time, I fell unconscious. That also didn’t deter them,” the survivor told the investigating officers.