Tamil Nadu: Minor Out to Celebrate Birthday Gang-Raped, 4 Arrested

An auto driver has been nabbed for repeatedly raping a 13-year-old girl student while ferrying her from school over the past five months. 

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A minor girl out with her male friend in a park in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore to celebrate her birthday was allegedly raped by six men, four of whom have been arrested, police said on Saturday, 30 November.

The Class 11 student had gone to a park with her male friend on 26 November and the two were returning home at around 9 PM when the gang accosted them, assaulted the man, dragged the girl to a secluded place and raped her.

They also videographed the incident, police said.

The girl narrated the incident to her mother the next day, following which a complaint was lodged at an all women police station.

Investigations led to the arrest of four men, who were booked under various sections of the POCSO Act, 354 (assault on woman to outrage her modesty) and 506 (ii) (criminal intimidation) of IPC, police said.

They were produced before a Mahila Court, which remanded them to custody and lodged in the central jail in Coimbatore. A search is on for other two men, including the gang leader, police said.