BIJNOR: Five youths have been booked by police here for allegedly blackmailing and gang-raping a minor girl for more than five months.The crime was committed in a village under Badhapur police station in Bijnor in February. Four youths, Saleem, Alauddin, Kasim and Musharraf got their friend Jevendra Singh to call the girl, who was his friend, to an isolated place, where he allegedly raped her. The crime was filmed by the other four, after which they gang-raped the girl.Ever since, the five youths had been blackmailing the girl, who is also from the minority community and gang-raping her. On Thursday, they uploaded the first video online. The girl’s family filed a complaint on Friday night. An FIR was filed and Jevendra Singh was arrested on Saturday, while the other youths are at large. Bijnor superintendent of police Umesh Singh has announced a reward of Rs 15,000 for the capture of each of them.According to sources, the matter had been discussed in the village earlier, but the families of the accused youths had managed to hush it up.Badhapur SHO Ramesh Singh said, “The mother of the girl filed a complaint on Friday evening and an FIR was lodged against all five youths under 376 D (gang rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC and sections of POCSO and IT acts. Jevendra, the main accused, told police he was forced to rape the girl in February.”SP Singh said, “The four other accused are at large but will be arrested soon.”

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