Spate of gang rapes continue in India.
In yet another case of gang rape in India, a 12-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped and her parents and younger brother viciously attacked by a group of armed robbers in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday night.
The gruesome incident happened when the family was sleeping inside their house in Salempur Pataura village on the outskirts of Lucknow, reported NDTV.
The robbers barged into the single room house after breaking the door when the family didn’t open the door when the robbers knocked. The robbers attacked a carpenter and his wife using weapons so that they couldn’t defend their daughter.
After neutralizing the parents, and her younger brother, the robbers dragged the girl about 600 meters to a nearby field and took turns to rape her.
“There were five persons who came inside. They were carrying an iron rod and a banka (axe). They started hitting my father and mother. We hid in a corner,” the carpenter’s eight-year-old son was quoted as saying by The Indian Express.
Though the neighbors came out of their houses hearing the ruckus, they were frightened to help the family as the robbers fired gunshots. The carpenter, however, managed to contact the police and his brother for help.
“I had stepped out of the house on hearing them scream, but the robbers fired their weapons. There was no electricity at the time, so I came back inside and reached my house’s roof so that I could hit them with bricks if possible,” a neighbor told The Indian Express.
The robbers had fled the spot when the police and the carpenter’s elder brother arrived half an hour later. The girl, who suffered serious injuries, was found by the police in the field.
The girl and her father were taken to a city hospital for medical examination and treatment. The police have registered a case under Sections 376D (gang-rape), 395 (dacoity) and 397 (dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) of the IPC, and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO).
The family also complained that the robbers had taken some cash and some jewelry from their house. The police have started an investigation to catch the robbers who are on the run. Though some people were summoned for interrogation, no arrests have been made.
Robberies of similar nature had happened in the locality in 2013 and 2015. But, the police is yet to catch the burglars responsible for even the 2013 incident.