LUCKNOW: A 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by two men in a dilapidated house close to the railway tracks in
Gomtinagar
on Thursday. The accused, aged 21 and 25 years, were arrested later.
The survivor, who studies in class VIII, lives with her mother, elder brother, sister-in-law and a nephew in a house in Vineet Khand, Gomtinagar. She had come out of her house for a walk around 7pm, when two men caught and dragged her inside their house and sexually assaulted her multiple times, police said.
“An FIR under POCSO Act has been lodged,” SHO, Gomtinagar, Dheeraj Kumar said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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