Mumbai , Dec 19 : Eight boys were arrested and remanded into police custody by a special POSCO court here for allegedly raping a minor girl in a village in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Monday.
According to information the incident occurred during the intervening night of Friday and Saturday when the accused raped the teenage girl at an unoccupied bungalow in their beach village before taking her to the seashore, where they sexually assaulted her again.
According to officers, the girl said she had been lured by one of the men, who is said to be a minor. Then, they took turns to rape her till the next morning, they added.
A case of gang-rape has been registered against all eight accused at Satpati police station, a spokesperson of Palghar district rural police said, adding that the victim was around 16-years old.
“In her complaint lodged on Saturday, the victim said her ordeal began at 8 pm on December 16 that continued till 11 am the next day,” a police officer said.
Based on her complaint, the police arrested the eight accused in the early hours of Sunday and registered a case against them under various Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, including 376 (D) (gang-rape), 366 (A) (procuration of minor girl), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
