Mumbai: Bombay high court ordered the Pune police to find Delhi based model aged 24 and a 16-year-old Nepalese girl who were allegedly raped and forced into prostitution in Pune.
The Nepalese girl had alleged that she was sexually assaulted by over 100 men, including police officers.
Justices Ranjit More and Revati Dere said that the allegations are of a very serious nature and we are concerned about the whereabouts of the victims.
“Make sincere efforts to trace them”, they added.
The high court directed Pune’s police commissioner to depute a senior officer above the rank of DCP to be present on the next date of hearing (March 31).
The bench told advocate general Rohit Deo to appear in the matter on behalf of the state and appointed senior advocate Mihir Desai amicus curiae (friend of the court).
The case of a Delhi model’s rape in Pune came to light when she was admitted to a hospital in Delhi with burn injuries in March 2016.
She revealed that she had been lured to Pune by one Rohit Bhandari (the main accused in her case and also that of a Nepalese girl) through a social media website.
She allegedly met him on the promise of acting offers, but when she refused to get intimate with him, she was burnt with cigarette butts and gangraped by him and others (all accused in the case).