Police have arrested 3 accused.
New Tehri: A big news is coming from Kirtinagar of Tehri Garhwal district in Uttarakhand. According to information provided by the police, three people have been arrested in Kirtinagar for allegedly sexually abusing a minor, kidnapping her and inducing her to convert to religion. Tehri Senior Superintendent of Police Ayush Agarwal said on Wednesday that accused barber Salman alias Ishaan, 23, and his brother Shaan Malik, 24, were arrested from their house in Najibabad, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday morning. evening.
‘The girl’s mother had filed a complaint’
SSP Aggarwal said that Rakesh Negi, a local person who helped the girl elope with the accused, was arrested from Jakhani in Kirtinagar. It is revealed that it was Negi who called the girl from home and helped her escape with Salman and Shaan. The SSP said the mother of the 16-year-old girl had lodged a complaint at the Kirtinagar police station on Monday night regarding the incident. The girl is currently studying in tenth grade. The police officer said that in the complaint, the girl’s mother had accused Salman of sexually abusing her daughter and trying to convert her.
‘Girl missing on the day of the complaint’
The police officer said that on the same day the girl’s mother filed the complaint, the girl disappeared from her house around 11 p.m. Aggarwal said immediately after his disappearance, a team was formed and based on the accused’s call details and analysis of CCTV footage, they found him in about 12 hours. The police team recovered the girl safely from Mojampur Tulsi in Garhi police station area of Najibabad. Tehri Additional Superintendent of Police JR Joshi said a case has been registered against the accused under the Uttarakhand Religious Freedom Act and the POCSO Act.
Angry people organized a demonstration till Jakhani.
We tell you that after the disappearance of the girl, the locals destroyed the businesses in a certain community on Tuesday. The anger among the people was so much that they organized a demonstration from Kirtinagar main market to Jakhani. Facing the anger of the general public, adequate police were deployed in the market area and an appeal was made to the people to maintain peace.
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