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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (DV)
Mangaluru, Dec 28: A minor girl on Monday December 28 filed a complaint in Kavoor police station alleging that she was gang-raped by five youths.
According to the complaint, the 16-year-old girl was gang-raped by Prashant Shetty, a resident of Kunjathbail, and his friends Salman, Naufal, a minor and another man who she did not recognize.
Police have arrested all the five accused and investigation is on.
The girl stated in her complaint that the main accused, Prashant, who was her neighbour, used to harass her from a long time, and when she resisted, he promised to marry her. He then physically exploited her and pressurised her to have sex with his friends too, and threatened her of dire consequences if she disobeyed, she alleged.
As per the complaint, on Sunday December 27, Salman called the girl using Prashant's phone and asked her to come to Panjimogaru bus stop, saying that he had some important matter to discuss with her. When the girl went to the spot, the minor boy came by bike and picked her up, and took her to a house in Panjimogaru. The minor told her to enter the house, and when she did, she saw Prashant, Salman, Naufal and another unknown man sitting inside. When she asked whose house it was, Prashant said it was Salman's, states the complaint.
The girl alleged that she was given a glass of juice and taken inside a room, where the five took turns to rape her. "When I resisted, they tortured me," she alleged.
She was then dropped off at a bus stop near a college by the minor. A few passersby who saw her looking exhausted and ill took her home, she said.
She also claimed that in a similar case to hers, another girl in Thokkottu is in the clutches of one Surendra and Chandrakala and needs to be rescued.
Mangaluru Mahila Shakti accompanied the girl and provided counselling.
Based on the girl's complaint, the Kavoor police have registered a case under POCSO Act and IPC Section 376 D.
Kavoor police made the arrests within hours of the complaint. The arrests were made under the guidance of M N Nataraj with the participation of PSI Umesh and other police personnel.