SRINAGAR – A Class IX student was allegedly raped in the border district ofPoonch in Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir. Police said the teenager waslured and abducted by two youth when she was returning from school. Theyallegedly raped her and threatened to kill her if she told her family.
However, the survivor told her parents, who reported the matter to thepolice. Cops registered a case under section 376 of the Ranbir Penal Codeand launched a manhunt to nab the culprits. One of the accused wasarrested, while another has gone into hiding, DNA has reported.
SSP, Poonch, Pande Rajiv Omparkash said that an FIR was registered and thestudent’s statement recorded.
The incident comes at a time when the country is seething with anger overthe brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old tribal nomad girl inKathua. The Mufti government just approved two ordinances making rape ofchildren below 12 punishable by death and of under 16 punishable by lifeimprisonment.