Hapur, Uttar Pradesh – A 14-year-old girl endured unimaginable horror in Hapur when her trusted friend spiked her drink with sedatives, leading to her captivity and repeated gangrapes over 12 days by the friend's father and his accomplices. Police arrested two suspects on November 29, 2025, but the main culprit and his daughter remain at large as investigations intensify.
Authorities registered a case under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and POCSO Act, vowing no leniency for the culprits.
On November 13, 2025, the girl from Pilkhuwa accepted her friend's evening invitation to her home. The friend, daughter of accused Ashish, handed her a laced cold drink that induced unconsciousness. Assailants then dragged her to a room in Naresh's house in Gandhi Bazaar, where Ashish, Naresh, and Hemant subjected her to brutal gangrapes.
Over the next 12 days, the offenders dosed her with more sedatives to quell resistance and issued chilling death threats. Some attacks unfolded before the friend herself, exploiting the girl's exhaustion from her daily labor to support her ailing family. She awoke semi-conscious on November 25, her body and spirit battered, before locals alerted authorities.
The girl's mother, single-handedly managing the household amid her husband's chronic kidney disease, noticed her absence the next day. She mobilized relatives for exhaustive searches and filed a missing person report at Pilkhuwa police station on November 14. Frustration mounted as initial responses lagged, leaving the family in despair.
Rescue came abruptly on November 25 when bystanders discovered the semi-conscious teen at Naresh's residence. Paramedics rushed her to a hospital, where she gradually regained clarity and recounted the nightmare. Medical examinations confirmed the assaults, providing crucial evidence for prosecutors.
Superintendent Kunwar Gyananjay Singh, responding to the mother's urgent appeal, directed immediate action. Raids on November 29 nabbed Naresh and Hemant, who confessed during grilling. Police seized many items from the sites, supporting the case.
Ashish and his daughter, the initial betrayer, fled before the crackdown. The family demands swift captures to halt their escape, criticizing early police inertia but praising Singh's intervention. "This is a highly sensitive case," Singh stated, underscoring probes into the crime's depths.
Singh assures comprehensive justice, amid Uttar Pradesh's alarming rise in juvenile assaults, NCRB data reveals escalating POCSO filings.
(Rh/ARC/MSM)