Satish Aditya
Motihari : Close on the heels of gang-rape a 14 year old girl under Gobindganj police station (PS) area in East Champaran District in North Bihar in which the four accused are yet to be arrested by police, a 11 year old girl was raped on January 1, 2020, evening, near Lakhaura market under Lakhaura police station area in the District.
The 11 year old girl was washing utensils at a handpump near her home on January 1 evening when she was forcibly lifted by by a co-villager, taken to a near by field, and raped. She was seriously injured but somehow returned home and narrated her ordeal to her mother. On January 2, 2020, Ramdhani Devi, mother of the survivor, lodged an FIR with Lakhaura police station alleging that Ritik Sahni of her village had raped her daughter. Police sent the victim girl to Motihari Sadar hospital where she was medically examined. Earlier, her statement was recorded at Women’s Police Station, Motihari, headquarters of East Champaran District.
SHO, Lakhaura police station, Rajesh Kumar, said that Ritik has been arrested and remanded to jail . Police has lodged this case under POCSO Act against the accused, he said.