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In an unsigned poster, the residents urged the Amritsar commissioner of police to reinvestigate the October 28 gang rape while alleging that police had taken Rs 10 lakh in bribe.Walia said given the sensitivity of the matter, police had also formed a child welfare committee to record the statement of the survivor. When asked about the involvement of the sweetshop owner’s son, the ADCP said all these issues would come up in the investigation.Meanwhile, chairperson of Punjab women’s panel chief Manisha Gulati said, “It doesn’t appear to be the work of one person.” She said she had given notice to the Amritsar commissioner of police and had sought immediate arrest of the culprits and a detailed report of the incident. “The girl has alleged that her private parts were impinged upon,” he said, adding that the parents of the victims were not even keen to get an FIR registered and it was only on the police’s persistence that they made up their mind.The minor girl was allegedly raped in the house of a sweetshop owner on the night of October 28, but police had booked only one of his relatives and didn’t register a case against him or his son.Walia said in the preliminary investigation it was revealed that the arrested accused had exchanged his mobile phone number with the girl. AMRITSAR : Three days after the alleged gang rape of a minor girl in Amristar, police have arrested one person after protests from the survivor’s relatives, residents and intervention of the Punjab State Commission for Women.Amtitsar additional deputy commissioner of police J S Walia informed TOI on Thursday that police had arrested one of the accused from Dinanagar in Gurdaspur and had registered a case under Section 376 (rape) of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act against him.It, however, didn’t pacify the relatives of the survivor, who blamed the police for protecting the son of an influential person.Their resentment against the alleged inaction reached to a boiling point after the residents pasted posters on walls accusing the police of receiving Rs 10 lakh bribe to save one of the accused..