Siliguri, Oct. 5 -- Police have arrested three people, including the owner of a grocery shop, in connection with the alleged gangrape of a 13-year-old girl. The accused have been identified as Mohammad Aftab, Mehboob Alam and Mohammad Iltab.
According to police, the incident was reported from an area under Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad. All the accused were previously known to the minor. One of the accused was the owner of a grocery shop where the girl had gone to buy some goods.
The owner and his associates allegedly raped the girl in the shop, following which she got pregnant. The accused were produced before the Siliguri court, which remanded them to 10 days of police custody for further investigation. Police subsequently took all three accused to the area with a rope tied around their waist to reconstruct the alleged incident and collected evidence from the spot.
Soumyajit Roy, the Sub Divisional Police Officer of Naxalbari Circle said: "The reconstruction was conducted as part of the investigation and evidence-collection process."
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