Agra Rape Case: Minor woman gangraped by 3 males, 1 hangs self from tree as police start search | Agra Information

AGRA: A 15-year-old woman was kidnapped and gangraped by three males between 18 years and 20 years in Agra district on Monday night.
When she informed her household about it, police launched a manhunt to nab them. On studying about it, certainly one of them hanged himself, police stated on Wednesday.
The incident occurred when the woman was coming back from her father’s fruit store. A motorbike-borne man waylaid her and she or he was pulled into an autorickshaw by the driving force and his confederate. Later, she was dumped outdoors an ashram on the outskirts of her village.
Primarily based on a grievance filed by her father on Tuesday, an FIR was registered beneath IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 376-D (gangrape) and the Pocso Act.
Assistant commissioner of police, Anand Kumar Pandey, stated, “A search was initiated to arrest the accused. The investigation led us to their village beneath the jurisdiction of Shamshabad police station in Agra. Fearing arrest, one rapist hanged himself from a tree close to his dwelling. His physique has been despatched for publish mortem.”
Deputy commissioner of police, Somendra Meena, stated, “The arrested autorickshaw driver is being questioned. Six groups have been fashioned to arrest the absconding accused. The survivor has been despatched for a medical examination.”
(The sufferer’s identification has not been revealed to guard her privateness as per Supreme court docket directives on circumstances associated to sexual assault)