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THREE Buddhist monks were among the four persons arrested on late Wednesday evening for gangraping a 14-year-old girl in the hilly town of Kalimpong in Darjeeling district.
The monks belonged to a monastery at 11th Mile in Kalimpong,while the fourth is a resident of the area.
According to the police,the girl was gangraped by the four on Tuesday evening around 7.30 pm while she was returning home. Sources said the teenager was offered a lift by a man on a van. Initially,the girl refused to board the van.
However,after a while she agreed as it had become dark and wanted to reach home early,said a senior police officer. Police said the man drove her to a forest and called the three monks. After which they allegedly took turns to sexually assault her and later abandoned her in the forest.
All of them have confessed their crime, said Kunal Agarwal,SP of Darjeeling.
All the four were produced in the court on Thursday.
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