13-yr-old raped in Betul, accused BJP leader on the run

A 13-year-old girl in MP's Betul district was allegedly raped by a 65-year-old BJP leader on Monday night, leading to violent protests on Monday night. The police are looking for the accused, Ramesh Gulhane, who was an alderman in Betul municipality. A mob gheraoed the house of the accused BJP leader sending police scrambling to the scene. Gulhane managed to escape, but the protesters set fire to his car. According to the complaint, the BJP leader called the child to his house on Monday evening and raped her. He allegedly threatened her not to talk to anyone about it, but she immediately confided in her parents. Infuriated, the girl's relatives and around 200 neighbours marched to Gulhane's house seeing the mob outside the BJP leader fled through the rear door. Betul Additional SP Neeraj Soni told TOI while the child's parents went to file a police complaint, teams from several police stations sped to Gulhane's house to tackle the mob. The protesters torched his car. "There were 150-200 people we had to use mild force to control the mob. The situation is now under control," Betul Additional SP Neeraj Soni