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Villagers are in shock and grief after a  minor girl in Sidhgora area of Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, was ganged rape by as many as three youths.

All three accused, aged between 20 to 25 years, were nabbed on Sunday after a complaint was filed by the 13-year-old girl's mother. on Saturday. All three men were arrested on the charge of raping a minor girl in Sidhgora area of Jharkhand's East Singhbhum district, a police officer said today.


All three accused, aged between 20 to 25 years, were nabbed on Sunday after a complaint was filed by the 13-year-old girl's mother. The investigation was carried out by the officer-in-charge of Sidhgora police station, Ashok Kumar.

In her complaint, the woman said her daughter was playing with a younger brother near Baridih Park in Sidhgoraon area of East Singhbhum on Saturday evening, when two accused, one of them known to the girl, approached the siblings.

"The men sent the brother home, luring him with biscuits, before taking the girl to an abandoned house in the area, where the third accused joined them. The girl was dropped near her house around 1.30am in the intervening night of June 9 and 10," the officer said quoting the FIR.

The police arrested them after the victim gave details of the accused and claimed that she was physically fine and the government-run M G M Hospital had conducted the medical test. 

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