<p align="justify" class="title">A 16-year old tribal girl was allegedly gangraped in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district and threatened by locals not to file a police complaint, an official said today.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The Class 11 student and her family were also offered a compromise to prevent her from filing the complaint against the accused, he s0aid.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">However, the girl finally managed to reach neighbouring Harda district, around 125 kms from Betul, and filed a complaint with police last evening, almost two weeks after the incident, the official said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The teenager was allegedly raped by five persons at Hardadadu village in Betul on January 11, Harda's Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The accused offered the victim a lift to her school on their motorcycles and then took her to an isolated place where they allegedly offered her a sedative-laced drink and raped her, Singh said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Later on reaching home, the victim narrated her ordeal to her father and grandmother, he said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">However, when her family members were going to the local police station, the villagers organised a meeting (panchayat) and asked them to accept a compromise in exchange of money and even threatened to kill them, if they filed a complaint, the SP said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">However, the girl, with the help of some relatives, reached the Harda city Kotwali police station last evening and filed the complaint.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">"We have registered a case against the five accused, aged between 22 and 30, under relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act," Singh said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">"The case diary would be sent to the police station concerned for further action," he said. </p>
<p align="justify" class="title">A 16-year old tribal girl was allegedly gangraped in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district and threatened by locals not to file a police complaint, an official said today.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The Class 11 student and her family were also offered a compromise to prevent her from filing the complaint against the accused, he s0aid.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">However, the girl finally managed to reach neighbouring Harda district, around 125 kms from Betul, and filed a complaint with police last evening, almost two weeks after the incident, the official said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The teenager was allegedly raped by five persons at Hardadadu village in Betul on January 11, Harda's Superintendent of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The accused offered the victim a lift to her school on their motorcycles and then took her to an isolated place where they allegedly offered her a sedative-laced drink and raped her, Singh said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Later on reaching home, the victim narrated her ordeal to her father and grandmother, he said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">However, when her family members were going to the local police station, the villagers organised a meeting (panchayat) and asked them to accept a compromise in exchange of money and even threatened to kill them, if they filed a complaint, the SP said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">However, the girl, with the help of some relatives, reached the Harda city Kotwali police station last evening and filed the complaint.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">"We have registered a case against the five accused, aged between 22 and 30, under relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act," Singh said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">"The case diary would be sent to the police station concerned for further action," he said. </p>