In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old Muslim girl was allegedly gangraped for several days by men in Jalandhar because she refused to be the second wife of one of her perpetrators, police said. The minor girl was abducted from Kharawar village in Rohtak on January 8 and was recovered by the Rohtak police from Nakodar in Jalandhar district of Punjab. The victim, who originally belongs to Ludhiana district in Punjab, had come to her maternal uncle’s place in Kharawar village of Rohtak district. Her brother said a boy from their village, Pegu, wanted to marry her and make her his second wife. She said they took her to Delhi and Jalandhar, where she was repeatedly gang-raped by four men out of the 15.

Source: Hindustan Times January 19, 2017 07:51 UTC