Jabalpur:
Police said that a 14 -year -old girl from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh was allegedly raped after a person held hostage for three days, which she had befriended her friend in neighboring Mandla district with her friend on a social media stage.
He said that the accused, identified as Rajan, came in contact with the girl studying in class 7 on social media.
Prasanna Sharma, in -charge of the anthem police station of Jabalpur City, told PTI on Thursday, “The young man came to Jabalpur to meet him and both started talking on the phone. But the girl’s family came to know about the relationship, he snatched away her phone.”
The man again came to Jabalpur in February and gave the girl a new mobile phone, he said.
On 17 April, when the girl’s mother went out of the city, the man called the girl and invited her to Mandla. The girl reached Mandla by bus on 21 April, she said.
The official said, “The man and his friend put the girl at a house and raped her for three days. When the girl’s mother returned home and her daughter found her daughter missing, she suspected the man’s participation and called her and called her and threatened to file a police complaint against her,” the officer said.
On 24 April, the accused sent the girl to her place in Jabalpur in a bus. He even threatened the victim to make his objectionable video viral if he told anyone about the incident. But the girl approached the police and lodged a complaint at the Garh police station, he said.
He said that the accused and his friend have been booked under the Protection of the Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and the Code of India (BNS).
Efforts are on to arrest the accused, Sharma said.
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