A 17-year-old girl was raped by a student inside a college campus even as the Uttar Pradesh provincial civil services (PCS) preliminary exam 2020 was underway on 11th October.
The alleged rapist is a polytechnic student of Jhansi. The victim alleged that a group of students forcibly took her inside the campus, while she was meeting a friend. The friend, a boy, was then thrashed and she was raped by one of the students, while the others made a video.
Besides, the accused boys took away Rs 2,000 from the girl.
"When some police personnel who were passing near the campus heard the cries of the victim, they took her to Sipree Bazar police station. The girl who was in trauma, revealed the entire ordeal to the police and identified one of the accused as Bharat," said SSP Jhansi, Dinesh Kumar P.
Eight students, including two main accused Rohit Saini and Bharat Kushwaha, were arrested. The principal of the polytechnic, Naveen Kumar, has identified them as second-year students.
An FIR has been filed against the main accused Rohit Saini and Bharat Kushwaha and other unknown persons under sections 120B, 376-D, 395, 386, 323 of the IPC, section 66D of the IT Act, and section 3/4 of POCSO Act.
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