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Two men kidnapped a 16-year-old girl and raped her in Gautam Buddh Nagar district's Greater Noida area. The incident took place on August 24 when the teenage girl, a resident of Dastampur village which comes under the jurisdiction of Jewar police station, was returning home after attending sewing classes.
"She had gone for sewing classes near her home and the two accused came on a motorcycle and kidnapped her. They also forced her to have alcohol and beat her up when she resisted," said SS Bhati, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Jewar police station.
"The duo raped her and the next morning dumped her outside her house in Dastampur village," he said citing the complaint made by her father.
Based on the complaint, which was lodged on Thursday (August 30), an FIR was registered against unknown persons under Section 376 (rape) of the IPC, Bhati said.
According to the Circle Officer, Greater Noida 2nd, Piyush Kumar Singh, charges under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 have also been pressed against the duo.
The police have taken up the probe and the accused will be nabbed soon, Singh said.
(With inputs from PTI)
