A 14-year-old girl in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh, was lured to her friend’s home on November 13, 2025, drugged with a spiked cold drink, held captive for 12 days until November 25, and repeatedly gangraped by her friend’s father Ashish, along with his associates Naresh and Hemant.
The victim was found semi-conscious in Naresh’s house in Gandhi Bazaar after her desperate family filed a missing person report.
Police arrested Naresh and Hemant on November 29 per Superintendent Kunwar Gyananjay Singh’s orders, while Ashish and his daughter remain fugitives.
The case, registered under relevant Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections including POCSO, is under investigation with assurances of swift justice, highlighting betrayal by a trusted friend and delays in initial police response.
The Luring and Captivity
The ordeal unfolded when the girl, a resident of Pilkhuwa area in Hapur, accepted her friend’s invitation to visit her home on the evening of November 13. There, the friend handed her a cold drink laced with sedatives, causing her to lose consciousness shortly after.
Upon regaining senses, she found herself locked in a room where Ashish, the friend’s father, Naresh, and Hemant took turns assaulting her repeatedly over the next 12 days. T
o suppress her resistance, the perpetrators administered more sedatives and issued death threats, turning a supposed friendly visit into a nightmare of repeated violations right in front of the friend’s eyes at times.
Police reports detail how the captors held her in Naresh’s residence in Gandhi Bazaar, exploiting her vulnerability as the family depended on her earnings due to her father’s chronic kidney condition.
The girl endured physical and psychological torment, with the assaults continuing unabated until she was discovered in a semi-conscious state on November 25.
Superintendent Kunwar Gyananjay Singh described the case as “highly sensitive,” emphasising ongoing probes to uncover the full extent of the conspiracy and secure medical evidence from the victim’s hospital examination.
Family’s Anguish and Police Action
The victim’s mother, shouldering all household responsibilities alone, noticed her daughter’s absence that evening and launched frantic searches with relatives, yielding no clues.
The next day, November 14, she lodged a missing person complaint at Pilkhuwa police station, but initial delays in escalating the matter frustrated the family.
Breakthrough came on November 25 when locals alerted authorities about the girl found unconscious at Naresh’s house; reunited with her family, she revealed the horrifying details upon partial recovery in hospital.
Acting on the mother’s appeal to senior officials, SP Singh ordered immediate registration of the rape case against all four-the friend, Ashish, Naresh, and Hemant-under stringent laws.
By November 29, Naresh and Hemant were arrested, with police raiding locations and seizing evidence; the duo confessed during interrogation, per reports.
The family criticised early police inaction but praised the SP’s intervention, urging faster apprehension of the absconders to prevent further flight. This sequence underscores systemic gaps in rapid response to child disappearances in Uttar Pradesh.
Broader Context of Vulnerability
Hapur, part of western Uttar Pradesh, has witnessed a disturbing pattern of sexual violence against minors, with recent POCSO court rulings handing 20-year sentences to perpetrators in separate gangrape cases from 2022, signalling judicial firmness yet persistent societal risks.
The victim’s status as a working teenager to support her ailing father mirrors challenges faced by many low-income families, where children shoulder adult burdens, heightening exploitation dangers.
Experts note that drugging tactics, as here, complicate detection, often delaying justice until survivors speak out.
This incident follows closely on the heels of other regional reports, amplifying calls for community vigilance and school-based safety programmes. The friend’s complicity shocks, betraying bonds of trust among peers and exposing how predators enlist minors in crimes.
As investigations deepen, forensic analysis and witness statements will be pivotal, with authorities vowing no leniency to deter future atrocities amid rising NCRB data on juvenile sexual assaults.
The Logical Indian’s Perspective
This gut-wrenching betrayal demands urgent societal and institutional reforms to shield children from predators lurking in familiar circles, prioritising swift police protocols, parent-child safety dialogues, and empathy-driven support for survivors.
The Logical Indian stands firmly for harmony through education on consent, kindness in victim aid, and collective accountability to dismantle cycles of silence around abuse.
