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Panchakula, Sep 23: In connection with the alleged gangrape and torture case of a minor girl from Panchkula, the police on Monday arrested a college student.

Identified as Aman Ahuja (21), who is doing BSc, the accused is resident of Sector 10 here.
After being arrested he was produced before a local court that sent him in one-day police remand. Aman is reportedly an accomplice of the main accused, who is still absconding and is believed to be in Delhi.

Investigating officers told TOI that they have identified some accused, but their ages are posing problems. If any minor accused is arrested, he will have to be immediately produced in the court, which would send him to the juvenile home in Sonepat. This would hamper their questioning. Taking this fact into consideration, police want to gather strong evidence against the accused and then arrest them. Meanwhile, police is tracing call records of all the accused.

On the other hand, police reportedly is not getting sufficient “help” from the victim as well. In her statement to the police, the minor, a student of class XII, alleged four youths, in connivance with her former schoolmate, abducted her and took her to a village in Punjab where she was raped and tortured. She claimed she was on her scooter, when she met her senior in Sector 12-A, Panchkula.

The girl reportedly asked the victim to accompany her to Chandigarh, where she apparently had some urgent work. The victim agreed and parked her scooter at a nearby temple. “When they reached sector 30-31-Industrial Area roundabout, she saw a parked car and then both the vehicles headed for the village. After the alleged gangrape, the victim was dropped at the Housing Board Chowk near Panchkula,” sources said.