2 arrested for raping 14-year-old Ghaziabad girl; not juveniles, both 19, police say
The two taken into custody, according to police, are adults, not minors as believed earlier.
Both are 19 years old. The main accused named in the FIR has not yet been taken into custody.
His age is also being verified. Police said that he is absconding.
The girl's statement was recorded before a magistrate in the evening. Sources said that the Class IX student told the magistrate that she was sexually assaulted. Her statement was then sent to court in a sealed envelope.
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The alleged sexual assault happened when the girl, student of a private school, was alone at home on Sunday morning.
At the time of the incident, her mother had gone to a local market and her father was out for work.
One of the boys, the main accused who she knew, had called her up and insisted on coming home.
But four of them landed up, and according to the complaint filed by the girl's father, they overpowered her and sexually assaulted her in one of the rooms. The FIR was filed at Kavi Nagar police station under Section 70(2) (gang rape) of BNS and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.
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Bhaskar Verma, ACP of Kavi Nagar, said that the accused had allegedly given the girl some sedatives, after which she became unconscious. When her mother arrived at the house, the boys were still there, the ACP said. "We checked the documents of the boys in our custody, like school certificates and Aadhaar cards, and determined they are not minors. They have told us the main accused is a minor, but the fourth boy is not," the senior officer said.
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