BHOPAL: A teenager who went to the local market in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh was allegedly waylaid, kidnapped and held captive by four people who later gangraped her. The survivor went missing on Sept 21 and a report was filed by her kin the same evening. Police have arrested all the four accused in the case on Monday.
The survivor, a resident of Maghgawan area, had gone out to the local market from where she went missing prompting her parents to file a police complaint.Later, on September 22 information was received that the girl was found at Amdara in Maihar. A team of officials from Civil Lines police station in Satna went to Amdara and recovered the missing girl, said police.
The survivor was brought to Satna, where she informed police that on September 21, she went to Satna railway station where she found one of the accused, Guddu alias Dinesh Gupta. He took her to Manikpur on some pretext. There, he and two other accused, Rajji and Vicky, took turns to rape her. Later, Guddu brought her to Maihar on the pretext of visiting Maihar temple. There, he again raped her at an eatery, and another accused, Arjun Patel, also raped her. Later in the night, the survivor managed to escape from their clutches and reached a group of locals, who then took her to Amdara police station, police said.
Police have arrested all four accused, identified as Dinesh Gupta alias Guddu, 23, Vicky Kesarwani, 23, Rajji Kewat, 30, all residents of Manikpur in Uttar Pradesh, and Arjun Patel, 21, a resident of Maihar district.
Police said that the survivor overheard at the eatery that the accused were planning to send her with some truck driver. It was then that she managed to escape. She boarded an auto-rickshaw and reached a place where there was a gathering of people. The accused were also chasing her. The mob nabbed two of the accused and informed Amdara police. The survivor was then taken to Amdara police station and Satna police were also informed, added sources.