According to the victim's complaint, which was submitted on Saturday, her ordeal started at 8 p.m. on December 16 and lasted until 11 a.m. on December 17.
Digital Desk: In the Palghar district of Maharashtra, eight men were detained on suspicion of gang-raping a 16-year-old girl on Sunday. According to a police official quoted by news agency PTI, the crime took place on the night of Friday and Saturday when the suspects brought the girl to an empty home in their seaside town and continued to rape her till dawn.
According to the victim's complaint, which was submitted on Saturday, her ordeal started at 8 p.m. on December 16 and lasted until 11 a.m. on December 17. Later, they also took her to the beach, where they attacked her sexually in the bushes once more, the official continued.
According to a Palghar district rural police spokesperson, the suspects have been the subject of a gang-rape case that has been opened at the Satpati police station.
Upon receiving her complaint, the police detained the eight suspects early on Sunday and filed a case against them under several sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including sections 376 (D) (gang-rape), 366 (A) (procuration of a Minor Girl), 341 (Wrongful Restraint), 342 (Wrongful Confinement), and 323 (Voluntarily Causing hurt) and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the police said.
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