IMPHAL. April 12 (Newmai News Network): A teenaged girl was allegedly raped by two persons just half a kilometer away from the office complex of the deputy commissioner of Thoubal district in Manipur on April 10, according to a delayed report.
The two rapists have been arrested by Thoubal police and produced before the chief judicial megistrate, Thoubal and remanded to five days in police custody. They are identified as Y. Boby Singh (37) and L. Raghumani (48), and a case has been registered under FIR no. 104(4) 2012 Thoubal P/S U/S 376/34 IPC.
According to the delayed report, the 16 year old girl and her mother have been running a shop in front of the office of the deputy commissioner, Thoubal where the two accused rapists, who were regular customers, had bought few things on that day. Saying that they had no change, the two accused had given a Rs 1000 note, which the young girl took to get change from another shop as she and her mother also did not have change.
The two accused had followed the girl saying that they would collect the change from the girl, and after that they had reportedly taken her away in a car, the mother is reported to have stated in her complain to the police.
When the girl did not return in time the mother had started looking for her daughter and learned that the two accused had taken her daughter away towards the paddy fields in a Santro car. A search was then carried out along with local women folk and youth club members and the girl was found inside a hut, said the delayed police report.
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