Surat, June 17: The police have found two MMS clippings of the gangrape of the minor school girl in Surat on Friday.
The two clippings are of Tariq and Abubakar; Tariq’s clipping is of 35 minutes duration while that of Abubakar is 12 minutes. The police said the three accused are proving to be habitual sex offenders during investigation. They are in crime branch’s custody under the 14-day remand.
One of the interrogators related the entire incident on condition of anonymity. He said Tariq, Shahid and Abubakar were returning home to Nanpura after having an early morning meal at Milan Dhaba near Kadodara Crossroads, about 18 kilometres from Surat on Friday.
The Opel Corsa car was driven by Abubakar, while Tariq sat next to him; Shahid was on the backseat.
Tariq spotted the victim with a boy under the flyover near Kadiwala School at Majuragate. They reversed the car and stopped near the two. The trio posed as police officers of the Special Operations Group in Surat and threatened to take the girl and her friend to the police station if they did not go with them. They then drove off towards Dumas.
On the way, Shahid threatened both the students to implicate them in a false case. To settle the matter, he demanded sex. The girl begged for mercy, but the trio paid no heed to her prayers. They threatened her friend and made him sit on the front seat, while they raped her by taking turns.
In fact, the trio also asked her friend to join in, but he refused. Meanwhile, Shahid captured the act on his mobile phone camera. Later, the girl and her friend were dropped back from where they were picked up. The trio threatened her not to tell anybody about the incident or else they would circulate the MMS clips.
The mobile phones of the three and the clips have been sent to forensic experts. The police have recovered 10 more locally made MMS clips from Shahid’s and Abubakar’s mobile phones.
Shahid’s laptop has also been seized and 15 MMS clips have been found there. Some of them feature local sex workers.
The police say that the three offenders are in the habit of making MMS clips of girls in compromising position.
—–Agencies