Lalitpur (India), May 04, 2022 (PPI-OT):A policeman in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is on the run after he raped a 13-year-old girl who went to police to report she had been gang raped. A criminal case has been registered against him and he has been suspended, a senior police official said. The girl said that she had been gang raped by four men last month.
The report has led to outrage in India with many people expressing anger on social media. In his complaint to the police, the girl’s father said that four men had taken his daughter to the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh where they sexually assaulted her for four days. The men then brought her back to her village in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) before they fled.
The next day, the officer in charge of the local police station raped the girl when she went to the police station with her aunt to lodge a complaint, Indian reported. The news of the incident has caused outrage with many questioning law and order in India’s most populous state.
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