Satish Aditya
Bettiah : SDPO, Bettiah, in West Champaran District, Pankaj Rawat, on September 21, 2019, said that police have recovered the SUV used for kidnapping and gangrape of a minor girl at Bettiah recently from village Barbat and detained its driver Deepak Kumar.
Police said the owner of the vehicle is woman of that village and driver Deepak Kumar said that the rape accused had hired the SUV. The driver denied his involvement in the rape. Police have arrested 5 accused in this case while another accused Deena Nath is absconding and raids are on to arrest him.
It may be recalled that a minor girl was gangraped by 4 persons when she was on her way to her sister – in- law’s home at Bettiah on September 13, 2019, night. The accused had dragged her into an SUV and gangraped her.
Chairpersons of State Commission for Women and National Commission for Women have visited Bettiah and met the survivor, a former inmate of a Muzaffarpur Shelter Home, and demanded security to her.