Cop, hotel owner held for rape

Jammu, June 2: A teenaged girl was allegedly raped by a policeman and a hotel owner at the construction site of police quarters in Jammu, the police said on Monday. The 18-year-old Class 11 student was brought here on Sunday evening from Nowshera area in Rajouri district by a Kashmiri youth Mohammad Ashraf of her village, the officials said.

Ashraf fled away after they checked-in at the Victoria lodge. The hotel owner, Romesh Sharma and constable Ahabir Ahmed, took the girl to under construction site in Gulshan ground and raped her, the police said. A lady cop, who heard the girl shouting raised an alarm and the girl was rescued, they said. Ahmed and Sharma were held.