A minor girl was raped while going to a grocery shop in a village in Tripura’s Khowai district on Monday evening, the police said on Tuesday, adding that they were on the lookout for two people who allegedly sexually assaulted her.
As per the police complaint filed by the girl’s mother, the two people came on a vehicle and took her to a nearby place and raped her. Locals of the area came to the girl’s rescue after hearing her cry and later informed her parents.
“We registered a case on rape and Pocso Act charges based on the complaint filed by the rape survivor’s mother. We are trying to trace them as both are still absconding,” said an officer of the local police station.
The police said that as per the complaint, one of the two accused people is a resident of the same village as the girl.
In other incidents, the police recently arrested a man for allegedly raping a minor girl in West Tripura district.
More than a week ago, two men were arrested and four minors apprehended for their alleged involvement in the gangrape of a minor girl in South Tripura district. In May this year, a man was arrested on charges of abducting and raping a minor girl, three days after the incident.
As many as 144 rapes and 31 murders of women were reported in Tripura in 2023-2024, according to a home department report placed in the Assembly earlier this year. The police arrested 39 people in connection with 30 of these murders, the report added.
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