Raipur: In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped twice in two different districts of Chhattisgarh. Police reported this on Friday. An officer said that a total of six persons have been made criminals in both cases, including a 22-year-old woman. Four of the culprits were arrested on Friday, he said. The cases were registered at Chirmiri police station in Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur (MCB) district on Thursday.  

According to the complaint received, the woman had befriended the minor girl four months ago and took her to a hotel in Bilaspur, where the victim was gang-raped by three men, the officer said. The victim was then raped at a roadside eatery in Chirmiri by two other persons, the victim said.

On Thursday, the victim and her mother approached the police. Subsequently, two cases were registered under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping), 366A (purchase of minor girl), 376D (gangrape) and provisions of protection of children from sexual offences. Some media reports claimed that one of the perpetrators was a Youth Congress leader. But the youth wing of the ruling Congress has denied that the culprit was its office-bearer.

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