Girl, 15, is drugged and raped by at least 20 people in India

Girl, 15, is lured away by the promise of a new school bag before being drugged and raped by at least 20 people including four minors during horrifying eight-day ordeal in India

  • Fifteen-year-old girl is drugged and then raped by at least 20 people in India
  • She went into city with a friend and another person on promise of a schoolbag  
  • She was then abducted and taken to different parts of the city in eight day ordeal
  • Two police officers have been suspended for a ‘negligence of duty’ over incident 

A teenage girl aged 15 has been raped by at least 20 people over a period of eight days. 

Twenty people have been arrested in connection with the incident which happened in the city of Jhalawar in the state of Rajasthan, India.

Two police officers also have been suspended for a ‘negligence of duty’ after failing to act ten days after the incident, The Times of India reported.

Twenty people have been arrested in connection with the incident which happened in the city of Jhalawar in the state of Rajasthan. A stock image is used above [File photo]

The girl was allegedly taken by a friend and another young person into the city to buy a schoolbag for her.

She says she was drugged and raped by men at a park and also at different places around the city over the following eight days in late February. 

Four of the 20 people arrested in connection with the incident are understood to be minors.  

Local police Superintendent Sharad Choudhary said of the two officers suspended: ‘These police officials failed to act even after 10 days of the crime and protect the minor girl’.   

She says she was drugged and raped by men at a park and also at different places around the city. The incident took place in Jhalawar

She says she was drugged and raped by men at a park and also at different places around the city. The incident took place in Jhalawar