Bhaijan Ali and Safar Ali, who raped minor girl for 2 days in Assam, arrested

Bhaijan Ali and Safar Ali, accused of kidnapping and raping the girl,has been arrested.

Dispur, Feb 06: In a shocking incident, a minor girl was kidnapped and allegedly gang-raped for two consecutive days in Assam. The incident came to light from Dibrugarh area and the accused were identified as Bhaijan Ali and Safar Ali.

The case has been filed under Section 376 of the POCSO Act, 2012, Dibrugarh SP Shwetank Mishra said.

According to the complaint filed by the family of the victim, the victim, a 14-year-old was kidnapped from an isolated place and she was raped for two consecutive days in a secluded area of the tea garden, according to a report in ANI.

The girl was missing for two days and was found unconscious near the Athabari tea garden area. "Two people were arrested in Dibrugarh for allegedly gang-raping a 14-year-old girl. The accused have been identified as Bhaijan Ali and Safar Ali. The minor girl was found unconscious near the Athabari tea garden," he said.

He has also revealed that the victim's hands and legs were tied with a rope.

"Her hands and legs were tied with a rope, and it is suspected that she was gang-raped. She had been missing since February 3. The accused will be prosecuted under Section 376 of the POCSO Act, 2012," he further said.

In a similar incident, Two women from Tripura were allegedly raped by six people in Karimganj district of Assam in November 2022 when they were returning after meeting their ailing mother in a hospital, police said on Sunday.

Five persons have been arrested in this connection and a manhunt has been launched to nab the remaining one, Karimganj Superintendent of Police Mayank Kumar said.

"The two sisters from Tripura visited their mother at the Cachar Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Silchar on Friday morning and hired a taxi while returning from the facility. After entering Karimganj, the driver took them to an under-construction building," he said.

Four more persons were waiting at the under-construction building in Baraigram area of Nilambazar and they took turns to rape the two women on Friday night, the SP said.

Initially police had the information that only the driver was there in the car, but later came to know that one more person was in the vehicle and that he too had raped the women with the other culprits, he added.

With inputs from agencies