KOLKATA: A 14-year-old girl was gang-raped by two Army jawans in a military reserved coach on the Howrah-Amritsar Express on Sunday evening, after she was being compelled to consume alcohol by a third jawan. The girl was rescued from the bogie in a joint effort by RPF and GRP personnel at Madhupur station in Jharkhand.

The girl, a resident of Kolkata, boarded the Punjab-bound train at Howrah on Sunday but entered the coach reserved for army personnel by mistake. She was first forced to drink alcohol by a one jawan and then raped by two others, according to RPF sub-inspector P Jani.

The girl had run away from home on Sunday. Her family informed police who alerted the railways. After receiving message, RPF raided the train when it reached Madhupur railway station in Jharkhand. The girl was rescued from the bogie at around 8pm.

“The military coach was locked from inside and after a bit of a ‘struggle’, the RPF and GRP men were able to gain access. The girl was found inside. She wasn’t fully conscious and was being fed by Tripathi. Women constables helped the girl to the GRP station and Tripathi was taken into custody,” an RPF officer from Asansol division said.

She identified the duo in a video footage of the coach taken at 11.15pm but when cops boarded the train at Sultanpur around noon on Monday to arrest them, they were nowhere to be found, he added

Another jawan, identified as Manjrish Tripathi, has been arrested as a suspected accomplice of the accused. The victim has said that Tripathi did not rape her but forced her to drink liquor after which the other two raped her.

The girl had been sent to a hospital for a medical test. The medical examination had confirmed rape.