Teen gang-raped in Burail hotel

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 4

Six persons have been booked for gang-raping a 16-year-old girl, who has been found pregnant. The accused include the victim’s brother-in-law.

One of the accused has been arrested while raids are being conducted to nab others.

The incident took place last month but the victim did not reveal it to anyone. On June 2, she had stomach pain, after which she narrated the incident to her sister.

The police were informed about the incident and the victim was taken to Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH) in Sector 16, where doctors found the victim pregnant.

The police said the victim’s 27-year-old brother-in-law had taken the victim to a hotel in Burail last month after claiming that his children were sick and he needed someone to take care of them. “The victim was taken to a room where four unknown persons gang-raped her,” the police said.

While the accused left, the victim stayed in the same room where her brother-in-law also raped her the next day. Later, the accused took the victim to a house in Ram Darbar where another person, identified as Parveen (25), violated her.

Sources said Parveen operated the hotel in which the victim was raped.

The victim’s statement was recorded, following which a case under Sections 376-D (gang rape) and 370 (trafficking of persons) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered against the accused at the Sarangpur police station.

Parveen has been arrested in the case while efforts are being made to arrest the others, said a police official. Parveen was produced in a court today, which sent him to two-day police remand.