17-year-old ends life after being raped in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri

The deceased, a Class 12 student, was preparing for board exam when three men barged into her house and gangraped her while her parents were away; her uncle, the complainant, alleged that accused beat him up, too

A 17-year-old minor from a Scheduled Case community allegedly died by suicide after being gang-raped at a village in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district, police said on Saturday.

The victim’s uncle lodged a complaint, stating that his niece was preparing for her Class 12 board exam at home and her parents were working in the fields when the three accused barged into their house and assaulted her on Friday. (Representative photo)

The victim’s uncle lodged a complaint, stating that his niece was preparing for her Class 12 board exam at home when her parents had gone to the fields. “Three men barged into my brother’s house when my niece was alone at home. They took her to a room built on the first floor and raped her. On hearing her screams, I rushed to spot but the three thrashed me up. Later, my niece ended her life by hanging herself from a ceiling fan,” the complainant said.

The post-mortem report of the girl is awaited.

A case was registered against the three absconding accused under Sections 306 (abetment to suicide), 365 (whoever kidnaps and abduct any person with intent to cause that person to be secretly and wrongfully confined), 376-D (gangrape) of the Indian Penal Code, Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Act and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. A search is on for the accused.