Lucknow: Girls tried to be raped, jump off roof, 1 held
Lucknow: A man was arrested on Sunday in connection with a case in which three miscreants,including a police constable, had tried to rape two girls and forcefully kept them in a house in Aashiana.
The accused, Rajeev Kumar, is from Hardoi. He was arrested from Aashiana police station area. The other two miscreants, including former Hardoi zila panchyat member Mithilesh, are yet to be arrested.
The two girls had been brought to Lok Bandhu Hospital on Friday in a critically injured condition. It later surfaced that the girls had jumped off a roof of a house to save themselves from rape.
One of the girls, a resident of Kanpur, said that she and her friend had arrived in Lucknow on Friday after an acquaintance, Mithilesh, had promised them a job.
When they met Mithilesh at Charbagh, he told them that the interview had been postponed. The girls had planned to return but Mithilesh asked them to stay for the night at his house in Ruchi Khand in Aashiana. The girls agreed to stay in a room at the top floor of his house.
At night, Rajeev and his friend who is the head
constable in Faizabad police tried to force themselves on the girls. In
an attempt to save themselves, the girls jumped off the roof. One of
them broke her leg while the other sustained severe injuries. Locals
rushed to the scene to help the victims and they were taken to the
hospital.
An uncle of the girls in Kanpur informed the police.
Helpless, two girls jump off roof to avoid being raped
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