Click to play videoNew Delhi: The fellow villagers of the seven arrested in the Noida gangrape case have threatened to stage a blockade on Friday if the police do not release the accused.
Even though one of the ten accused in the case publicly confessed to the crime on Thursday, the villagers claim the boys were wrongly implicated in the case.
The village panchayat of Ghadi Chaukhandi has even pronounced all the accused not guilty.
“Our children were coming back home after playing cricket when they saw the couple in a compromising position, which led to a brawl. The police registered a case against our children,” Bharat Yadav
The 10 boys allegedly abducted a 24-year-old MBA student from near a busy shopping mall in Noida and then took turns raping her. Seven of them have been arrested and three are still absconding. Their families, however, are still defending them.
They maintain that their children are innocent and that they were just playing cricket. “Police is blaming our children for no reason. They all belong to respectable families,” a relative of one of the accused said.
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