Bhopal: Class VI girl gang-raped by mobile game playmates for a month, 3 teens arrested

BHOPAL: A Class VI girl in

Bhopal

was gang-raped for a month by three boys, still in their teens, who were her PUBG playmates. They first raped her in early September after luring her to a flat in Gautam Nagar, and then blackmailed her into submitting to gang rapes till she finally told her mother on Wednesday.


The three accused — Fuzail, 18, and 19-year-olds Rizwan Khan and Farhan Ahmed — have been arrested. SP (South) Sai Krishna S Thota said the 14-year-old came in touch with them when she started playing PUBG in lockdown. Her mother is a government employee while the trio work as handymen.

She didn’t know anything about them beyond their names and phone numbers, but they chatted over phone for months and she agreed to go on an outing when they invited her, said the SP. In September, they took her to a flat in Gautam Nagar, where they allegedly gang-raped her and took a video of the crime. They threatened to post the video online and gang-raped her repeatedly for a month, says the complaint.

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