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One of the two Constables accused of gang-raping minor girl in Badaun police station arrested

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One of the two constables accused of gangraping a 14-year-old girl inside a police station in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh was arrested on Tuesday from Bareilly railway staton, said official.

Constable Avanish Yadav was arrested when he was about to board a train for Delhi.

“Yadav, along with his colleague, sexually assaulted a minor girl. A case was registered against him but he had fled the area. Today, we received information and in a joint operation with the team from Badaun, we arrested Yadav from a temple outside the railway station here,” Bareilly City Superintendent of Police Rajeev Mehrotra told ANI.

“He has been handed over to the Badaun Police. He will be produced in the court tomorrow. However, the other accused is still at large,” he added.

The girl was allegedly abducted from her house on December 31 by constables Veer Pal Singh Yadav and Avnish Yadav, police said. She was taken to Musajhag Police Station and allegedly raped there

An FIR was registered after the victim's mother lodged a complaint against the two policemen.The medical examination of the girl had confirmed the rape. 

The two constables hail from Bareilly and separate teams were constituted to nab them.

Giving details of the alleged incident, the victim had said, "At 8 PM I informed my mother and went to relieve myself. I saw a car there and two constables. They told me to come into the car and then took me away. They took me to a room in the police station where they assaulted me. They then dropped me to my village."

As Union Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi condemned the incident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav directed officials to make all out efforts to arrest the accused and punish them. Yadav ordered that a senior police officer be rushed from the headquarters to coordinate with the Badaun police for effective investigations, an official spokesman said.

Terming the incident as "unfortunate", Maneka Gandhi had said the rape crisis centre was a necessity for the district and it would be set up in the coming months.

Musajhag Police Station, where the minor was raped, fall in Aonla, the former Lok Sabha constituency of Maneka Gandhi.

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