In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly held hostage and raped for five days by a man in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi. The man befriended the girl two years ago.
Later, the girl returned to Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior and narrated the incident to her parents. The girl’s parents approached the police and lodged a complaint at university police station on March 1.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP, Crime Branch) Krishna Lalchandani told the news agency ANI, “We received a complaint at University police station in the district on March 1 in which a victim submitted a written application that she met with a youth during a wedding function in Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh. After which she started talking to him and she was in contact with him for about 2 years, then their conversation stopped in between. Recently, the accused phoned her and called her to Jhansi.”
The accused had threatened to make a video of her viral if she didn’t meet him, prompting her to travel to Jhansi, where the horrific crime took place.
“The accused threatened her that if she fails, he will make her video viral. The victim alleged that as soon as she went to Jhansi, the accused raped her and forcibly kept her for 5 days. After that, when she returned to Gwalior, she told her parents about the entire incident,” ASP Lalchandani said.
The victim befriended the accused in a wedding function in the Jalaun district of Uttar Pradesh two years ago and has since started talking to each other. Their conversation had taken a pause in between, but recently, the accused phoned her to meet. When the girl refused to meet him, the accused threatened to make her video viral on the internet.
Following which, out of fear, the girl agreed and reached Jhansi to meet him. The accused held her hostage for five days and raped the minor. After returning from Jhansi, she gathered courage and narrated the incident to her parents.
