Lalitpur gang-rape: Accused cop sent to jail

Thu, 05 May 2022
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The station house officer arrested on charges of raping a minor girl in Lalitpur was on Thursday sent to 14-day judicial custody. 

With this, all the six accused in the case have been sent to jail following court orders, the police said. 

"Accused SHO Tilakdhari Saroj was produced before a district court which sent him to 14-day judicial custody," superintendent of police Nikhil Pathak said. 

The 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by four men over three days and was sexually assaulted again by the SHO of a police station where she had been left by her attackers, police said. 

Saroj was arrested in Prayagraj on Wednesday and was brought to Lalitpur. 

Deputy inspector general of police Jogendra Kumar had removed the entire staff of the Pali police station after the incident came to light. 

While Dharmendra Singh has been made the new SHO of the police station, new staff has also been posted there, officials said. 

The accused SHO was arrested from an area near the Allahabad high court. 

Five others, including the girl's aunt and the four men who had lured the victim to Bhopal and raped her, have been arrested as well, they added. 

Police sources said the girl was lured to Bhopal, about 240 kilometres from Lalitpur in Uttar Pradesh, by four men and they allegedly raped her for three days and then left her near the Pali police station. -- PTI