Girl from MP rescued; molestation case registered

Tribune News Service

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Faridabad, June 20

A 17-year-old girl, who ran away from her home on June 6, has been rescued by the police from the Old Faridabad railway station. The police have registered a molestation case against the accused. No one has been arrested so far.

According to a statement given by the victim before the police, she was abducted by two youths, identified as Kunal and Anil, from New Delhi, who left her at the old Faridabad railway station on the night of June 18, when they failed to get a hotel there.

She told the police that three persons in civilian dress, claiming to be officials of the Railways Department, tried to outrage her modesty by making sexual overtures and advances towards her while she was in the waiting room of the station on the night of June 18. That made her approach the police.

The victim called the women’s helpline number 1091, following which cops reached the spot and took her to police station, where an FIR, under Sections 341, 354-A, 363, 366, 34 of the IPC and Section 8 of the POCSO Act, was registered against the accused on Saturday.

The victim told the police that she had run away from her home in Betul district of MP on June 6 after a quarrel with her father and sister over an issue. She spent a week each at Bengaluru and Nagpur at the places of some known persons before coming to Delhi on June 17, where she met the two youths. “While the girl’s family has been informed, the allegations of molestation are being probed,” said a police official.