Pakur, Jharkhand: Eight of the nine men who abducted four minor tribal schoolgirls from their hostel in the Pakur district of Jharkhand on Sunday and gang-raped them, have been arrested.
"Eight of the nine accused have been arrested, and the one remaining will be caught soon," Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said today.
The police says a group of nine masked men, armed with knives and weapons, barged into a girls' hostel in Litipara block at around 11 pm on Sunday. The intruders locked the school principal, who stayed in the hostel premises, and other students and then allegedly took the four girls away and gang-raped them just 500 metres away from the hostel.
After two hours, the minors were taken back to the hostel by their assailants. The police say all the suspects seem to be adults and probably belonged to neighbouring villages.
The latest incident comes on the back of a string of brutal sexual assaults on women in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh last week. The cases highlight how women, including minors, continue to remain unsafe in the country despite the government bringing in a new, tough set of laws to tackle incidents of sexual crimes.
"Eight of the nine accused have been arrested, and the one remaining will be caught soon," Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said today.
The police says a group of nine masked men, armed with knives and weapons, barged into a girls' hostel in Litipara block at around 11 pm on Sunday. The intruders locked the school principal, who stayed in the hostel premises, and other students and then allegedly took the four girls away and gang-raped them just 500 metres away from the hostel.
After two hours, the minors were taken back to the hostel by their assailants. The police say all the suspects seem to be adults and probably belonged to neighbouring villages.
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The latest incident comes on the back of a string of brutal sexual assaults on women in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh last week. The cases highlight how women, including minors, continue to remain unsafe in the country despite the government bringing in a new, tough set of laws to tackle incidents of sexual crimes.
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