Three including minor arrested for blackmailing girl

  • | Monday | 18th February, 2019

Rajkot: Three persons including a 14-year-old minor were arrested for allegedly blackmailing a 13-year-old girl, a student of class IX , in Krishna Park Society on 80-Feet Road on Sunday.According to police, of the accused, the minor boy, a student of class X, studying in the same school with the minor girl had a friendship with the girl.“He had clicked photographs of the girl and also sent her lewd messages on WhatsApp. The accused used to sit or loiter outside the school. We nabbed them from their residences,” added the official.The accused were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code dealing with blackmailing, atrocity, since the girl is a dalit, and issuing threats, and under sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. When the girl’s photographs and the messages were procured by Kishan Chauhan, a resident of Tirupatinagar Society on Kotharia Road, and Mukesh Gor, a resident of Ekta Colony on Kotharia Road, both aged 21, they started blackmailing the girl,” said an official from Bhaktinagar police station.So far, Chauhan and Gor siphoned off Rs 4,500 cash from the girl, who, eventually tired of this, complained to her mother and then her mother decided to lodge the complaint.“The girl also alleged that she was once slapped by one of the accused.

Rajkot: Three persons including a 14-year-old minor were arrested for allegedly blackmailing a 13-year-old girl, a student of class IX , in Krishna Park Society on 80-Feet Road on Sunday.According to police, of the accused, the minor boy, a student of class X, studying in the same school with the minor girl had a friendship with the girl.“He had clicked photographs of the girl and also sent her lewd messages on WhatsApp. When the girl’s photographs and the messages were procured by Kishan Chauhan, a resident of Tirupatinagar Society on Kotharia Road, and Mukesh Gor, a resident of Ekta Colony on Kotharia Road, both aged 21, they started blackmailing the girl,” said an official from Bhaktinagar police station.So far, Chauhan and Gor siphoned off Rs 4,500 cash from the girl, who, eventually tired of this, complained to her mother and then her mother decided to lodge the complaint.“The girl also alleged that she was once slapped by one of the accused. The accused used to sit or loiter outside the school. We nabbed them from their residences,” added the official.The accused were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code dealing with blackmailing, atrocity, since the girl is a dalit, and issuing threats, and under sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

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