Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): Sister and brother-in-law of the 16-year-old girl who was gangraped in a moving ambulance in Mauganj, have been charged with abetting the crime and are wanted by the police, said officials on Friday. Minor’ sister and brother-in-law, both charged with aiding the crime, are on the run.
The alleged crime in the ambulance being operated under ‘108’ emergency service took place on November 22 and two of the four accused in the case, including the driver, have been arrested. Rewa division, DIG Saket Prakash Pandey said, “The 16-year-old girl was raped in an ambulance in the Mauganj district on November 22. The incident came to light after the victim filed a report against 4 people in the police station on November 25.”
DIG said that the teenager was residing with her grandmother. Sharing the details of the case said that on the ill-fated day the teenager, accomp.ed by her sister and brother-in-law, was travelling in the ambulance (none of them was a patient). Besides the trio, the driver and his associate were inside the vehicle. Ambulance driver was known to the girl’s kin. En route, the girl’s sister and her brother-in-law got down from the vehicle on the pretext of fetching water. Instead of waiting for the couple, the ambulance driver sped away, said the officer.
Later, the driver’s associate travelling with him, Rajesh Kewat, raped her in the moving ambulance at Sunsan village on November 22, he added. After keeping the girl hostage for the whole night, the two accused dumped her on the roadside the next morning, the DIG said. On reaching home, the girl narrated the ordeal to her mother, who for two days did not approach police, fearing the incident would tarnish the family’s image in society.
They approached the police on November 25, following which a case was registered against four people. The girl’s sister and brother-in-law have also been charged with aiding the crime. He said the ambulance driver Virendra Chaturvedi and Kewat, the alleged rapist, were arrested on Wednesday. A hunt has been launched to apprehend the girl’s sister and brother-in-law, who have been charged with abetting the crime, said the officer. All the accused have been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
