Rajasthan horror: Minor gangraped in Jodhpur’s Mahatma Gandhi Hospital | Jaipur News – Times of India

JODHPUR: Two contractual employees of Mahatma Gandhi (MG) Hospital in Jodhpur were arrested on Tuesday for raping a 15-year-old girl on Sunday night. Police said the rape survivor had left her home after an altercation with her mother on Sunday evening and had reached the hospital.
Police found the survivor near the hospital canteen within the campus on Monday afternoon.She was taken to Soorsagar police station, where she told police about the incident. Following her revelation, police went back to the hospital and scanned CCTV grabs in and around the hospital, where the accused were identified as sanitary workers of the hospital on contractual basis.
Police sent the girl for medical examination on Tuesday wherein the rape was confirmed and her statement was recorded.
DCP (west) Rajarshi Raj Verma said a missing complaint had been given in Soorsagar police station on Sunday night by the girl’s father who said that she had been lured by some unidentified person.
“While we had been searching for the girl, we received information that she was present in the canteen of MG hospital. Police rushed to the spot and took her to the police station,” Verma said.
He said the girl admitted before police that she left home after being scolded by her mother on Sunday evening. However, it was only after 2 hours she disclosed that two persons raped her in a solitary place in the hospital premises on Sunday night.
“On this information, a team rushed to the hospital for spot verification and identification of the accused. We scanned CCTV grabs and found the two accused, who were identified by the girl”, Verma said.
After their identification and information from the hospital administration, it was found that both the accused were contractual sanitary workers at the hospital. Police said they lured her with food and took her to a solitary place near the prisoners’ cell within the hospital premises and raped her there. This is the fourth incident of rape with a minor in Johdpur in two weeks.
Commenting on the incident, former chief minister Ashok Gehlot termed the incidents of rape in Rajasthan as Jungle Raj. He said neither the public representatives nor police have any concern for law and order.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)