Sase under Section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered...
A 17-year-old girl was raped and then put in an e-rickshaw that left her outside the Dabri Mor Metro station in south Delhi, said police officers.
The victim’s family said that the girl was operated upon at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on Wednesday morning and is currently out of danger.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (southwest) Rohit Meena said, “A case under Section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered and the suspect was apprehended in the early hours of Wednesday.” However, police said the boy has claimed he did not rape the girl and that the two had consensual sex.
A police officer associated with the case said the two first connected on Instagram in October last year and met each other a few times. On Tuesday, the officer said, the boy took her to a friend’s house at Pankha Road near Janakpuri.
The girl reached around 3.30pm, and the boy took her to the friend’s house, where the two shared a meal. He then raped her,” the officer said. “The accused then put her up on an e-rickshaw which dropped her off at the Dabri Mor Metro station.”
At around 5.30 pm, police said, a woman came across the bleeding, semi-conscious girl on the road near the Metro station, and used her phone to inform the girl’s family. “The woman told us that the girl was lying on the road, near a public toilet,” the girl’s father said
The boy has been sent to an observation home, confirmed police.
The police said they would also question the suspect’s friend, to whose house he took her, to ascertain his role in the matter.
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