Three men arrested for alleged rape of 14-year-old in Akola

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Three men who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl in Akola town in Maharashtra state were arrested on Monday, a police official told PTI.

The girl was tricked and taken to a youth hostel in the city, where the trio allegedly raped her on June 7, said Mahendra Shinde, deputy inspector of the Civil Line police station.

According to PTI reports, the accused have been identified as Ankush Wakhte (25), Anurag Chaudhary (20) and Deepak Madavi (25), Shinde said.

The girl reportedly left home on June 7 but did not return. Her worried family members started searching and when they could not find her, they filed a missing person complaint at the Civil Line police station, PTI reported.

The agency reported that the girl returned home the next day, June 8, and told her family about the ordeal, police said.

Based on the family’s complaint, the police filed a gang rape case and arrested the accused. Charges have been filed against them under relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act), sources said. The trio were reportedly produced before a local court, which sent them to jail.

Thane rape case

An unidentified man has been charged with allegedly rendering unconscious and raping a woman on an express train in Thane district of Maharashtra, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said on Friday, according to PTI.

According to PTI, the victim had claimed that she was travelling to Uttar Pradesh on the Tulsi Express on March 10 when an unknown person administered a noxious substance to her to render her unconscious and then raped her, the official said.

According to PTI, the woman had claimed that the attack took place 40 minutes after the train departed from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in Kurla in Mumbai and arrived at Thane railway station.

The complainant approached the GRP in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, in April, 39 days after the alleged incident, and from there the complaint was forwarded to Thane 21 days later, she said, the news agency reported on Friday.

The Thane GRP on Thursday registered a case under Sections 328 (causing hurt by poison, etc. with intent to commit offence) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code for the incident that occurred in March, said Senior Inspector Archana Dhusane, PTI reported.

In the absence of CCTV footage from LTT, police checked the reservation tables of the Tulsi Express train and two other trains that left the station at the same time, the official said.