Trucker held for rape of minor, escapes mob fury in Hyderabad | Hyderabad News
The situation got out of control as police had to lathicharge to disperse the angry mob before they could cause any bodily harm to the accused truck driver (25) and whisk away from the spot. “Had we not stepped in time, the villagers would have lynched the truck driver,” a police official said. Angry villagers pelted stones on police when they were bringing out the accused from his house.
The accused, who confined two high school girl students in his house in the village, allegedly raped one of them and was arrested under IPC section of rape and Pocso Act.
Police said the accused lured the girls, aged between 14-15, to skip the classes and come to his house on the Bhuvanagiri outskirts on Friday morning. Parents come to know about their absence after a school teacher called them in the afternoon to inform that they did turn up at the school.
The family members immediately reached the school and made enquiries with a girl student, who is the sister of one of the girls. Parents were initially made to understand that the two girls might have gone to a temple in the village and later they were informed that they could have gone to the house of the driver, who is known to one of them.
Family members and the villagers rushed to the house of the accused and found the main door of the house locked from outside and the rear entrance latched from inside.
Thinking that no one was at home, the family members continued their search for the two girls in other areas. But later, villagers heard some noise from inside the locked house and broke the windowpanes. “The girls and the accused were found inside the house. The angry mob then ransacked the house and torched two bikes parked there,” Bhuvanagiri ACP S Venkat Reddy said.
Fearing for his life, the accused forced the two girls out through the back door and locked himself in.
Meanwhile, cops rushed to the spot and took out batons to charge at the villagers. In the melee, a police vehicle was damaged when the mob rained stones. No cop was injured. With great difficulty, cops managed to take the accused into custody and bundled him into a police vehicle before speeding away from the area.
Based on the statement of the elder girl, police registered a case against the accused. Following the complaint of the second girl, a case under the SC&ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was slapped on the accused. “We have arrested the accused and sent him to judicial remand,” Bhuvanagiri DCP K Narayana Reddy said.
A case was registered against for arson and vandalism.
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