UP: 12-year-old girl raped at SP MLA's residence

November 16, 2012 09:04

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by a domestic help of the Samajwadi Party MLA from Sadar, and his associates at the legislator's house in Balrampur, police said.

Rakesh and some of his associates allegedly abducted the girl while she had gone to attend to nature's call on Tuesday night and took her to MLA Jagram Paswan's house. The MLA was not present in the premises at the time of the incident.

She was locked in a room for 21 hours and allegedly gang-raped, police said, adding that the girl was later dropped at a secluded place on Wednesday night using the MLA's vehicle.

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