The Madhya Pradesh Police arrested seven men for allegedly kidnapping and gangraping a 13-year-old girl multiple times in Umaria district, NDTV reported on Sunday. Two others complicit in the crime were absconding, the police said.
The police said that a man, who knew the girl, first abducted her on January 4, and raped her with six of his accomplices for two days. He then released the girl, but threatened that he would kill her if she divulged what had happened.
Six days later, she was kidnapped again, this time by one of the other men who had raped her on January 4 and January 5. The man held the girl captive in the nearby forest area and a roadside dhaba, and raped her along with two other men, according to The New Indian Express.
The kidnappers then abandoned the girl, following which she was raped again allegedly by two truck drivers. The matter was reported to Katni police on Friday, after the 13-year-old managed to escape from the drivers, and returned home….
