Last week, a 14-year old Pune girl was kidnapped near the Pune railway station area and gang-raped at different places in the city. Pune city police have arrested eight suspects with the help of leads and security camera footage. Two out of eight suspects are believed to be employees of Indian Railways and five of them are auto-rickshaw drivers.
The girl went missing on August 31. She left for Pune railway station and did not return home post which the family filed an FIR at a police station in Pune city jurisdiction on September 1.
A police official who is a part of the probe said that the girl went to the railway station as she was travelling to another city to meet a friend. One of the suspects who is an auto-rickshaw driver (now arrested) told the girl that the train she is looking to travel from is not scheduled for the next day. Offering her help, he gave her a lift and also told her that he will help her find a place to stay.
Further, the official said to the media, “He took her to another area. The man is then believed to have called his accomplices. Over the next several hours, the girl was taken to different places and was gang-raped multiple times. The suspects have taken her to secluded areas, places with either a tree cover or a lodge. The girl was also raped in the rickshaw and even on the premises of the Railways office. The suspects also threatened to harm her and her family members as they continued to subject her to sexual abuse.”
The police are still trying to track down five more suspects who are expected to be involved in the crime.
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