In a sensational incident, a Class 10 girl was abducted and gang-raped by car-borne miscreants. The victim was later set free by the miscreants in New Delhi and with the help of police, she returned home and narrated her trauma before the family after which a report was lodged with the local police.

The cops admitted the girl to a hospital and launched a hunt to nab the accused.

According to reports, the victim student, a resident of Kotwali Aliganj area of Etah, had gone to school on Wednesday. When she was returning home, a car in which four people were sitting stopped on the way. The occupants of the car had their faces covered except the driver. The accused pulled the girl inside the car and took her away. Her mouth was gagged and her hands were tied.

The victim revealed that the accused took her to Delhi and gang-raped her in the moving car. After this, they left her at Anand Vihar bus terminal in the night.

The victim, with the help of police, boarded the Etah bus and reached Etah bus stand at around 11 am on Thursday. She was brought to the Medical College.

The mother said that her daughter had gone to school with her brother on Wednesday morning. She said her son had returned home by bicycle as there was a holiday in the school, but her daughter did not reach home. In the evening, the family lodged a report about their daughter’s disappearance.

The cops are now taking help of CCTV footage to identify the culprits and arrest them.

Meanwhile, a bid to kidnap a girl was foiled when the vehicle of the kidnappers overturned after being chased by the villagers in Bidhuna area of Auraiya district on Friday, police sources said.

Kiran Kumar, a resident of Bhaipur village, has three daughters, Ruchi, Julie and Shubhi. Ruchi and Julie are married and live in Gurugram and Shubhi had gone to meet them recently. On Friday all the three sisters came back to celebrate the birthday of their brother Arun.

Police sources said that the incident took place when the three sisters along with Arun were going to their village on an e-rickshaw. "Near Hamirpur Saraiya village, four to five persons travelling in an SUV pulled Shubhi from the e-rickshaw and bundled her into their vehicle. When the elder sister Julie protested one of the kidnappers hit her with the butt of a revolver," the sources said.

On hearing the cries of the girls when local residents chased the SUV its driver, in an attempt to escape, tried to speed away but the vehicle overturned.

"While one of the kidnappers was caught and thrashed by the villagers, others managed to escape," the sources said.

Police sources said that Julie was admitted to the hospital and the arrested kidnapper was being quizzed.