Ghaziabad: A 17-year-old partially blind girl has alleged she was raped by an unidentified youth four days ago and then told by her landlord leave her room in Ghaziabad.The girl, hailing from Deoria, has been sent to the Child Welfare Committee and has told its members she stayed in a room in Lajpat Nagar area with his father, who died around a month ago. The girl, who is currently lodged in Grace Care Home in Kanawani, has undergone a medical test to confirm rape and the report is awaited.The girl was seen by a tea stall owner near Parsvnath Paradise Society crying inconsolably on Thursday morning.“Around 10.30am on Thursday, I saw the girl crying and brought her to my shop. I realised she had a problem in one of her eyes. When I asked what had happened, she told me she had been raped four days ago and her landlord had forced her out. She had nowhere to go,” said Subash, the tea-seller.Subash said the girl had told him her father died around a month ago.“She gave me a phone number of a relative. I called up, but he disconnected the call. Since then, the phone has been switched off. I informed police. The CWC members took her away,” he said.CWC member Shalini Singh said the girl was too traumatised to give details of what had happened to her. “She told police she was gagged and raped by an unidentified youth between Monday night and Tuesday morning. Her landlord, too, has thrown her out of the house ,” Singh said.Rajesh Mishra, the circle officer of Sahibabad police station, said: “The girl is in the custody of CWC and she is being counselled. Once we get the final report from CWC, we will proceed with the case. We are in touch with the CWC members, who told us that the girl has been making conflicting statements. We are yet to register a case.”

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