Gangrape in Mumbai:
Schoolboys assault girl; viral
video on Whatsapp alerts aunt
PTI
MUMBAI
Four Mumbai schoolboys gangraped a girl and the widely circulated viral video on Whatsapp alerted the aunt, which eventually led to the arrest of the offenders in Maharashtra.
The teenaged girl was allegedly gangraped by her friend and three other boys. All the four accused who are minors have been taken into custody, DCP (Detection) Dhananjay Kulkarni said.
They were later sent to a remand home.
The four boys, studying in classes IX and X, allegedly gangraped the 15-year-old girl on November 8 and made a video of the crime.
They then threatened the girl not to reveal the incident or else they would post the video on Whatsapp, Malad police station’s senior inspector Shashank Sandbhor said.
One of the rape accused is a friend of the girl. She had gone for studies at his home in suburban Malad, where he and three of his accomplices allegedly gangraped her, he said.
The accused later posted the video of the incident on the internet and some social networking sites, police said.
The video later went viral on mobile messaging application WhatsApp and caught the attention of the victim’s aunt, who then informed her parents.
Subsequently, the girl’s family lodged a complaint with Malad police which took the four boys into custody yesterday.
“We took the four boys into custody yesterday and have sent them to Dongri remand home,” Sandbhor said.
