17-year-old girl gang-raped by three

AHMEDABAD: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by three persons in Sherisha village, Kalol taluka of

Gandhinagar district

, just 25km from the state assembly, on the wee hours of Thursday, said police officials. The girl has alleged that she was first raped in a farm by her boyfriend with whom she had eloped on Wednesday afternoon from her native village in Dehgam taluka.


Later, she alleged that two unknown boys raped her on finding her alone and helpless and she was left unconscious.

Gandhinagar DSP Vikramsinh Solanki, who is investigating the case, said that the girl had accompanied her boyfriend Vipul Sendhaji Thakor from her native. The boy is aged around 21 years. They went to his farm at Sherisha on Wednesday evening.

“Vipul allegedly raped the girl in his farm and later abandoned her near the canal following a tiff over some issue. The rattled girl started seeking help from passersby on the road, when three unknown boys on a bike stopped and offered to take the girl to her home. They took the girl to to a secluded place where two of them raped her,” Solanki told TOI.

Gandhinagar SP Virendrasingh Yadav said that four persons including the girl’s boyfriend Vipul Thakor and three others – Arvind Melaji Thakor, Baldev Ramanji Thakor and a minor boy were rounded up for gang rape and abetment by the Gandhinagar police on Thursday. Santej police inspector R B Rana said the girl had been sent for medical examination to Kalol civil hospital. Age verification of the accused persons was under way, he added. Santej police has lodged an FIR under IPC Section 376 for rape along with the sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the accused persons.

Unconscious girl was spotted by villagers

After raping the girl, the three accused persons left her at the Narmada canal in an unconscious condition. During the wee hours on Thursday, villagers of Sherisha found her lying unconscious with torn clothes on her body. The villagers soon called 108 ambulance and rushed the girl to nearby Kalol civil hospital where she gained consciousness after around four hours and then narrated the entire incident to the police. Police sources said that she was brutalized by the three due to which she fell unconscious. She is under treatment at the Kalol civil hospital.

Molestation in lift: One arrested

Vastrapur

police on Thursday arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly molesting a a 24-year-old bank employee at her apartment building in the Memnagar area of the city on Sunday. The accused was identified as Mahesh Rabari, a married man and a resident of Ranujangar, near Mansi Circle. Police sources said Rabari supplied milk in the complainant’s neighbourhood. On Sunday, he saw the girl walk into an elevator alone. He then followed her in and allegedly molested her. CCTV footage from the building shows Rabari exit the lift hurriedly and flee. Police have booked Rabari for molestation.