BRAVE GIRL

Those days are gone, when we got raped, kept mum fearing shame.

Here is High dose for men.

Sunita

New Delhi, Oct. 18: AN 18-YEAR-OLD girl paid a terrible price for being gullible: four youths gangraped her after promising her a job, a house and much-needed help to settle down in a city she had just arrived in. However, her remarkable agility saw the rapists behind bars.

On Monday, the girl had taken a bus from her hometown, Modinagar, and got down at the ISBT around 4 p.m. She then reached the Roshanara Road roundabout, where she was spotted by one of the rapists, Jatin Handa, who was in his car.

"May I help you," he told the girl, assuring her that he would take her to a few places where she could put up. A glib talker, Handa got her into the car. They checked out a few places. By now, the girl was convinced that Handa was one of those rare people who went out of their way to help those in distress.

Soon, it was dark and Handa took her home, where he raped her. Worse, he invited three of his friends to join him.

The culprits then drove off with the girl to the ISBT where they freed her. The girl immediately took an auto and followed the car, took down the car number and went to the police. The Subzi Mandi police arrested the four rapists, but not before fighting with the Kashmere Gate police over jurisdiction.

Both stations said the scene of crime came under the purview of the other, as the rape victim waited anxiously. There was hardly any confusion over which police station should have acted on the case the accused's home where the girl was raped was right behind the Subzi Mandi police station.

All the accused belong to well-todo families and one of them is the son of a local political leader.

Handa brought the girl to his office-cum-residence in Gali Thane Wali, Roshanara Road. His three friends identified as Chanakya Dua, Gaurav Gandhi, both aged 21, and Prateek alias Sunny, 18, then joined him. Handa is married. His elder brother, Kamal, has denied he was involved in the crime. "It is impossible for someone to rape a girl inside the house. We would have been alerted. Even the colony guard would have been alerted," he claimed.

HTN