The girl was reportedly friends with one of the accused. She had gone to meet him when the incident happened
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A 17-year-old girl was drugged by feeding sleeping pills and gang-raped by 4 men in Mahadev Nagar in Gujarat's Jamnagar district.
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As per a report in India Today, the girl was friends with one of the accused. She had gone to meet him when he drugged her and called three of his accomplices who took turns to rape her.
"Three of the four accused were arrested on Sunday, while one is absconding," an official of Jamnagar C-Division police station said.
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"She spoke about the incident to her mother two days ago after which a case under Section 376D (gang-rape) of IPC and provisions of the POCSO Act was filed," the official said.
In another incident, a 35-year-old woman was allegedly threatened and raped by two persons on several occasions in the last 15 days at Santrampur town of Gujarat's Mahisagar district, police said.
The accused got the mobile number of the victim from a phone recharge booth, they said. "Around two weeks ago, they threatened and called her at their place and raped her. They raped her again on October 2," a police official said.
"On Saturday, an FIR was lodged at Santrampur police station under Sections 376 (D) (gangrape) and 507 (criminal intimidation) and both accused were arrested," the police official added.
(With inputs from PTI)
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