UP: 16-year-old Offered Lift; Gangraped by Classmate, Relative in Greater Noida

The girl was offered a lift after she missed her school bus. The incident happened last week. Five days later, the police are yet to arrest the accused in the Greater Noida gangrape case.

Greater Noida, Apr 24: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by a classmate, a distant relative, and one more person when she was returning home from a school in Greater Noida. The girl was offered a lift after she missed her school bus. The incident happened last week. Five days later, the police are yet to arrest the accused in the Greater Noida gangrape case.

The girl, in her complaint, said that she remembers her uncle and the unidentified person sexually assaulting her. She, however, doesn’t remember her classmate involved in the act as she had passed out. She told the police that she had missed her school bus and was walking towards her home at around 2:30 PM when the trio arrived in a car and offered to drop her home in Kasna area.

The three accused men took turns to rape her in the car and roamed in and around the city for an entire day. She was then dumped near Knowledge Park area at around 1 AM. The police found the girl roaming near Galgotias University in Knowledge Park area and informed her parents. One of them was a distant relative who had come from Palwal while another was her classmate. Since she knew the boys, she decided to accompany them in the car,” Greater Noida station officer Ram Bhawan Singh told TOI.

But the man gangraped her. Although she remembers the relative and the other man taking turns to rape her, she doesn’t remember if her classmate was also involved in the act as she had lost consciousness. An FIR has been registered under IPC Sections 376D (gang-rape), 363 (kidnapping) and provisions of the POCSO ( Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.