Few media and political parties are blaming the government for any crime committed by the anti-social elements irrespective of the place, according to the press release from the AP Police Department.
Following the trend, few media joined by opposition parties blamed the government for an untoward incident. “A minor girl was gang raped by her boyfriend and his friend, and when she tried to end her life in RKBeach, she was approached by photographers who raped her for days before dropping her in Odisha. As soon as the incident came to light, the police department arrested all the accused, except two,” said the release.
The case pertains to a 16-year-old, a native of Odisha, who migrated to Visakhapatnam 9 months back and work as a maid in a house belonging to one Anish Kumar Sinha, and went missing on the 17th of December. Her father filed a missing complaint on 18th December at Visakhapatnam town station.
On 23rd December, the victim’s father received a call from Odisha police about her daughter. The police team along with him reached Pani Kohli in Odisha and brought her back to Vizag on 25th December.
“When the police asked her parents to bring her the next day for questioning, they didn’t turn up and the victim didn’t reveal any information regarding the incident even after they went to her house. But she came to the station on the 31st along with her parents and disclosed that she went with her friend Imran (from Jharkhand) and his friend Shoaib on her birthday when she was forced to have intercourse with them in a lodge near RK Beach. Later the duo dropped the girl at her workplace in the morning,” said the release.
The release added that again, she went to the beach around 9 am where she met the photographers Raju, Harish, Nagendra, and Gopi who pretended to give her moral strength. They approached her and forcibly took her to an unknown lodge and gang-raped her.
Later few of his friends – Srinu, Ashok, Naresh, Thambe, Eswar, and Praveen – joined them to assault her till 22 of December.
When she complained of stomach pain, Harish told her that he would bring a doctor. Later, on 22nd December around 7 PM when she requested them to drop her at Odisha, Nagendra took tickets for her and Raju to Bhermapur and boarded them on a train.
On 23rd December Raju dropped her near Pani Kolli police station with 200 rupees in hand. She was eventually provided shelter by the police personnel and alerted her parents in Visakhapatnam.
