14 year old girl tortured overnight by a group of five
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 16 2011:
In what can be linked to a monetory demand, a teenage girl was tortured by a group of five youths before throwing her listless body out of a moving car in front of her house.
The victim is now in a traumatised condition in the RIMS hospital.
The 14-year old teenager from Keirao Makting Mang Makha in the outskirts of Imphal was abducted by a group of five youths yesterday in the evening around 6.20 pm from near the gate of her house, said a police source.
Moments after the abduction she managed to send a text message to her elder sister informing her about the kidnapping but the victim's mobile went dead soon after, which was why further details could not be ascertained by the family members, added the source.
Sources said that the victim was kept captive in a house in an undisclosed hillock by the five youths and was possibly gang raped overnight.
Early morning today at around 4 am, the teenaged girl was thrown out of a moving Maruti Alto (silver) near her house by her captors with her hands and legs tied with a rope, according to a witness.
The victim's family has filed an FIR with Irilbung police station.
A medical check up was also performed on her at the RIMS forensic department.
Following the incident, enraged villagers stormed and burnt down two houses in the village which was suspected to be the houses of the perpetrators of the ghastly crime.
As of now, two suspected youths who might have been involved in the torture of the teenaged girl and whose houses were burnt down have been identified as Md Babul (23), son of Nasib Ali and Md Hasan (20), son of Nasir Ali.
The fathers of the two suspects are cousins and live in Keirao Makting Awang Leikai.
Till the filing of this report, there has been no news of any arrests made concerning the case.