Runaway Gwalior girl raped by 17-year-old at hotel

BHOPAL: A 19-year-old Gwalior-based girl, who allegedly fled from home after a dispute with her father, was allegedly raped by a 17-year-old boy at a hotel in Mangalwara locality.
According to the girl, she met the accused on the train while coming to Bhopal and GRP Bhopal detained both of them after they were found roaming at the Bhopal railway station in suspicious circumstances.They were handed over to Mangalwara police where a case was registered against the accused on the survivor’s complaint.
SHO Mangalwara Umesh Singh Chouhan said the survivor, a resident of Hajira in Gwalior, claims herself to be daughter of a doctor. She alleged that her father remarried after her mother’s death and stopped paying attention to her and her siblings. She alleged that recently she passed her Class 12 and fed up of frequent disputes with father she decided to leave the house.
She boarded a train to Bhopal on August 19. During the journey, she met the Gohad-based boy, who was coming to Bhopal to take admission in a college by the same train. He lured her by telling that he has cleared Class 12 and would take admission in Bhopal as his relatives stay in the city.
SHO Chouhan said that the survivor alleged that after the train reached Bhopal railway station at around 2 am the boy offered the girl to stay for night with him at a nearby hotel. He allegedly told her that next day he would go to his relative’s house in Bhopal and complete admission formalities. As it was night, the survivor accepted the boy’s offer and checked into a hotel room with him. The accused allegedly raped her in the room and as she had nowhere to go she kept mum.
On August 20, the boy completed his admission formalities and returned to hotel at around 3 pm after which they checked out of the hotel. The boy asked the girl to return to Gwalior with him and when they were waiting for a train at Bhopal railway station GRP cops detained them on suspicion.
Chouhan said the girl narrated the incident to cops after which they were brought to Mangalwara police station and a case was registered against him. He was arrested and sent to reform home while she was sent to Gauravi One Stop Crisis Centre as her father refused to come to Bhopal to take her back. Her father told police she had fled from home in the past too and returned on her own.