Government official's 22-year-old daughter gang-raped in UP's Barabanki, 3 held

Lucknow: A 22-year-old government official's daughter was allegedly raped by three men in a moving car in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki on Monday. Police officials said that all the three accused have been arrested.

A complaint was launched against the accused. As per it, the woman visited the King George's Medical University (KGMU) Hospital's Psychiatry Department, where she was undergoing treatment for some time. She used to seek help from Satyam Mishra, a tea vendor, whose stall she often visited to charge her phone.

Citing the complaint, the police officials said that Mishra took the woman to a nearby ambulance to charge her mobile phone. However, she found that the ambulance was gone and began looking for it with Mishra.

Officials added that later Mishra took the woman to a dhaba in the Saedabad area in a car in which the two other accused were present. The other two accused have been identified as Suhail and Mohammad Aslam.  

The three accused men made the woman drink laced with intoxicants and raped her in the car before dropping her in the Indira Nagar Area.

An FIR has been filed against the three men at the Wazirganj police station on Sunday under sections 376 (d) (gang rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 328 (administering drug with intent to cause hurt), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

(With inputs ANI inputs)