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Dalit girl sold, raped repeatedly for over a year

AHMEDABAD: Police inaction has been blamed for the travails of a dalit girl. The minor was allegedly sold repeatedly, raped and tortured for a year-and-a-half.

According to Gujarat Congress Committee general secretary Girish Parmar, the 15-year-old had gone missing in 2006 and her father lodged a complaint with the police in Bavla in Ahmedabad district.

A year-and-a-half later, she was spotted in Jatapar village in Viramgam taluka, less than 50 kilometres from Bavla. A woman recognised her and informed her parents, who went to Jatapar with police escort and brought her back.

In her complaint to the police, the girl narrated the events since her disappearance. She was kidnapped by a local anti-social element and sold to a sarpanch for Rs. 17,000, she alleged. The sarpanch reportedly locked her in a room and repeatedly raped her for months. She was then sold to a person in Jatapar village for Rs. 7,000 under whose custody too she suffered the same treatment.

Mr. Parmar said the girl would not have had to suffer the indignity had the police acted with alacrity. Even now it seemed unwilling to arrest those named in the girl’s complaint filed 10 days ago.

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