Maharashtra: Teen rape survivor used as 'bait' by police raped again

July 13, 2015 10:05

NDTV reports: Police in Maharashtra have admitted that a 17-year-old rape survivor in Jalna town was raped again because she was sent as bait to catch her assaulters. The police officers who sent the girl back to her alleged rapists are being investigated.

The teenager was allegedly raped at knife-point the first time on July 7, when she had gone to meet a male friend whom she had met on Facebook. The accused allegedly shot a video on her cellphone and tried to threaten and blackmail her.

The next day the police, in an attempt to lay a trap, sent the girl back to the same spot. It "failed" as police vehicles were following too closely, said Vishwas Patil, Inspector General of Police, Aurangabad district.

A day later, the police made a second attempt to trap the rapists but a "miscommunication" meant that the girl was assaulted once again.

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