PATIALA: The police have booked three labourers for repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl with learning disabilities, leading to her pregnancy. The accused are aged 40, 25 and 22 years.They have not been arrested as yet, but the police have registered an FIR on a complaint filed by the survivor’s mother and have started a hunt for them. The police claimed all the accused were working as labourers. The police revealed that the family of the survivor is struggling financially and her mother used to work as a daily wager in the village. Her father had died a few years ago and her sibling, a teenaged brother, too had learning disabilities. The matter came to light when the survivor’s mother rushed her to a government hospital where she was diagnosed to be around four months pregnant.“The accused are booked under sections of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Pocso Act for raping the minor girl. The accused have been raping the girl repeatedly in the village whenever they found a chance and this happened for several months. However, some villagers came to know about this and they warned the three accused,” a police officer said.“The family of the rape survivor did not bring this into our notice when they came to know about it. Probably, they might have avoided reporting the crime, fearing social stigma. The girl’s mother is only the breadwinner in the house. The accused are on run, but will soon be arrested,” the police officer added.

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