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The Maharashtra Police person arrested 2 men for allegedly raping 2 insignificant girls, some children of migrant labourers belonging to the Gond assemblage who had travel from Chhattisgarh to Maharashtra’s Beed to enactment successful the sugarcane fields, connected December 24, 2025.
Although the Beed constabulary registered an FIR connected December 29, the families are being pressured to retreat the complaints, said activistic Jeewan Rathore who is helping the families.
The accused, Ganesh Rajebhau Ghatul and Ashok Bhaskar Pawar, were arrested connected December 30 and person been sent to judicial custody. The connection of the 2 girls volition beryllium recorded successful the Majalgaon tribunal connected Saturday (January 3, 2026).
Mr. Rathore said that the 2 girls did not talk astir the incidental for 4 days arsenic the 2 accused had threatened them with dire consequences. The incidental came to airy erstwhile 1 of them needed aesculapian attraction aft complaining of pain. Currently, the girls are successful the custody of the Child Welfare Committee successful Beed.
The constabulary person evoked assorted sections of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, POCSO, and Scheduled Caste Atrocities Prohibition Act successful the complaint.
According to the FIR accessed by The Hindu, 14 radical from the tribal assemblage had travel from Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon to Roshanpuri successful Beed’s Majalgaon 2 months agone to enactment successful the plantations. The 2 girls, aged 13 and 14, were portion of the aforesaid radical and accompanied their begetter and uncle respectively.
“They utilized to navigator for the begetter and the uncle. They did not enactment successful the fields. On December 24, the 2 accused youths – 1 a section shopkeeper, and the different a tractor operator who ferries labourers – came to their huts and dragged them to the fields. After raping them, they threatened the girls with dire consequences if they opened their mouths,” said Ashok Tangade, president of the Child Welfare Committee, Beed.
Mr. Rathore, subordinate of a national warring for the rights of sugarcane workers and transporters, said that helium has been threatened for helping the family.
“The household is nether pressure. They are mediocre landless labourers belonging to the Gond community. They are being forced to retreat the complaint. I was threatened by radical from the ascendant caste and told not to interfere successful this matter, that the labourers are from extracurricular the State, that they person nary power, and that I volition person to beryllium present among these radical (accused),” helium told The Hindu. He said the labourers deficiency entree to cleanable water, healthcare and shelter, adding that much than 5,000 landless labourers from Chhattisgarh determination to Beed each twelvemonth to harvest sugarcane.
When asked astir the incident, Beed Superintendent of Police Navneet said, “The children are successful Bal Graha. The accused are successful magisterial custody. We volition marque definite that they are fear-free. They person not fixed immoderate ailment truthful acold astir immoderate threat. We volition bash everything legally and guarantee that justness is served.”
