Andhra Pradesh: Minor girl intoxicated, gangraped
The grandparents informed her parents, who lodged a police complaint on Thursday morning.
Vijayawada: In a shocking incident, a minor girl was intoxicated and gangraped by four youths at Madhura Nagar four days ago. The city police cracked the case within hours after the complaint was lodged and arrested the accused.
At about 8 am on Tuesday, the 16-year-old girl met her friend Patibanda Akhil, 20, a hotel management student, and his friend Ajay Samuel, 19, and went on a joy ride on the pretext of going for tuitions.
They went to an isolated place at Mustabad after visiting some shopping malls. Akhil and Ajay had brought beer and allegedly forced her to drink. The duo left the girl at BRTS Road at about 8.30 pm.
While the girl was struggling to find her way home, she was spotted by a group of four persons. Pothaboina Srikanth, 21, who works as a technician at Orange Internet cafe, offered to drop her home.
Along with Srikanth and the girl, his friends Cheduvumoragula Abhishek, 20, a technician in a dialysis centre; Kollipara Suneel, 21, technician at Orange internet cafe; and Mogonda Pavan Kalian, 21, who works with aluminium doors, went to Abhishek’s house at Madhuranagar at Tadepalli in Guntur district on bikes.
The four friends bought beer and forced the intoxicated girl to drink again. The four friends then took turns to rape her. On Wednesday morning, they dropped her near Gunadala.
The girl, by the time, had recovered from drinking and noted the bike number. She went to her grandparent’s house first and narrated her ordeal.The grandparents informed her parents, who lodged a police complaint on Thursday morning.
The Satyanarayanapuram police arrested all the four persons and also took the victim’s friends Akhil and Ajay into custody. Deputy commissioner of police G. Palaraju said they slapped cases against the four friends under Sections 376(D), 366, 34 of IPC and also under section 6 of the POCSO Act against the four.
The girl’s friend Akhil was also booked under the POCSO Act as he sexually exploited the girl and Ajay Samuel was booked for helping Ajay.