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A 13-year-old girl who went to a police station to report that she had been gang-raped was then raped again by the police officer she reported it to, authorities say.
The police officer, Station House Officer Tilakdhari Saroj, was later arrested after being caught on the run in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where the crime is alleged to have taken place.
The father of the girl alleged to police that four men had lured his daughter away to the neighboring state of Madhya Pradesh on April 22 where they raped her over the space of four days.
The men then brought the girl back to her village in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh (UP) before fleeing.
According to the report filed by the police, the girl went to the police station the following day to make a statement accompanied by her aunt. Saroj then took the girl into a room and raped her in front of the aunt, the report says.