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New Delhi: A shocking incident has emerged in the national capital where a 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by a man and three minor boys in Old Delhi’s Sadar Bazaar area. According to the police, a woman lured the minor girl to a secluded place, where the accused raped her. The accused man is a tea seller, and the woman who lured the girl was his customer. All five suspects, including the woman and the minor boys, have been detained. The minors, aged between 12 and 15 years, were workers at the stall.
On New Year’s Day, the accused tea seller asked the woman, who worked as a waste picker, to arrange for a girl to day. The accused had also made a temporary shelter by using plastic tarpaulin inside a sealed building to spend the night. Cops investigating the case suspect that the accused might have offered some money to the woman in exchange for bringing the victim to them.
The next day, the woman met the victim, who is also a ragpicker, and allegedly told her to collect garbage from the roof of a building located in the Khurshid Market. When the girl reached the area, the four accused, who were waiting for her, grabbed he victim and committed the crime inside the temporary structure. Afterwards, they threatened the girl if she told anyone about the incident.
The victim returned to her home and kept quiet for two days. On January 5, when she returned to pick up garbage in Sadar Bazaar, she told her cousin who lives in the area. The cousin subsequently informed her family, who approached the police and lodged the complaint.
The accused tea shop owner hails from Chhattisgarh while the three boys who worked at his shop are residents of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.
Police stated that a case has been filed under relevant IPC sections, and all accused were detained hours after the family complained.
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