28 June,2022 06:10 PM IST | Shahjahanpur | PTI
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A five-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by two minor boys, police said on Tuesday.
The girl was lured by the two into a sugarcane field and raped, they said.
Superintendent of Police (SP), Rural Sanjeev Bajpai said that the incident happened in a village under Banda police station area on Monday evening.
The accused are said to be seven and 11-years-old, the SP said.
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The same evening, the girl reached home crying and narrated the incident to her family members.
Police have registered a report on the complaint of the girl's mother.
The girl has been sent to a medical college for examination, while the search for the accused has started, the SP added.
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