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Minor girl allegedly kidnapped, raped in Anantnag

By News Desk

May 18, 2022

A Minor girl has been allegedly raped after being kidnapped by two person’s near the Raily bridge in Hassanpora area of Anantnag district in south Kashmir.

Official sources told The Kashmiriyat that the Railway Police in Anantnag have started investigations in a case of kidnapping and rape.

The teenager was allegedly kidnapped on Wednesday evening when she was on her way home.

The girl was initially spotted with two men inside a hut of the Railway Department when a GRPS was conducting routine track clearance.

As the Police started investigating the matter, the teenage girl (name withheld) said the two boys had kidnapped her when she was on her way home. She identified the kidnappers as Danish Rather and Mukhtar Ahmad Ganie, both residents of Hassanpora Taweela village.

Sources said the young girl told the cops that she was restricted in the railway hut for the whole night during which Danish raped her.

The Railway Police registered a case (FIR 2 of 2022) under sections 376, 109, 342 IPC, ¾ PASCO act and 147 Railway Act and started investigations. The victim is being handed over to her parents after a medico-legal examination.