The woman was utilizing Instagram on her mom’s smartphone. (Representational)
Aravalli, Gujarat:
A category 5 scholar was kidnapped and raped by a 16-year-old boy she met on Instagram in Gujarat. The ten-year-old woman went lacking from her dwelling in Dhansura village in Aravalli district on Tuesday after which her mother and father filed a kidnapping case.
Police traced the minors the following day with the assistance of human intelligence and technical sources.
“After we interrogated the mother and father, we discovered the woman was utilizing Instagram on her mom’s smartphone. She got here involved with a 16-year-old boy on the social media platform. They used to speak on the app and in addition speak over the telephone regularly. The boy kidnapped her, took her to his dwelling and raped her,” stated police.
The survivor and her sister, additionally a minor, have been utilizing the favored social media utility on the telephones of their mother and father. They’d created seven Instagram accounts however solely two of them have been energetic, the police stated.
The boy has been despatched to an statement dwelling in Mehsana. “We are going to take motion in opposition to the boy as per the Juvenile Justice Act,” the police stated.
– With inputs from Mahendra Prasad