Girl sexually tortured, father kills self in N. Bengal village

EOI & PTI, SILIGURI, 7 Aug 2015: A missed call has spelt disaster for a family in an interior village, several kilometres away from in Siliguri, with the father committing suicide in the wake of alleged sexual torture of his school-going girl by a group of youths.

A senior police officer on Thursday said that the man, a farmer, was found hanging on Monday, a day after he brought back home his rescued class IX daughter from local Ambari police station.
Two persons, including the main accused, were already arrested while hunt was on for the remaining duo, the officer said. The 14-year-old girl was rescued by a Siliguri police team from a red light area in Coochbehar where she was dumped by the youths.

The girl, who had left home for Coochbehar on July 14, had called up the mobile number of one of the youths to crosscheck a missed call on her phone one month ago. Though she had hung up, the youth kept calling back and managed to coax her into marrying him, the girl, now lodged in a juvenile girls' home, told the interrogators.

However, as she left home and reached Coochbehar,the youth and two of his friends took her to Siliguri and sexually tortured her for days in confinement, the officer said narrating her accounts. She was then taken to Coochbehar and dumped in a brothel by the three accused and a trafficker, the officer said.