Four people have been detained in the alleged rape of a five-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Hapur district.
Angered by the incident, villagers, demanding the arrest of the accused, protested against the deteriorating law-and-order situation in the state and blocked the NH-24.
The villagers claimed that they tried calling the emergency number 100 but it was not reachable.
Senior police officials reached the spot and cleared the highway for traffic after assuring the villagers of action against the accused.
The family was sleeping outside their house and at around 1:30 AM they found the girl was missing as they got up to go inside after it started raining, SP Alankrita Singh said.
The family started looking for her and found her unconscious and naked near a tubewell in a forest near the house, she said.
The girl was rushed to a private hospital in Pilakhua in a serious condition from where she was referred to Meerut, Singh said.
A rape case has been registered in this connection and teams have been formed to nab the accused, the SP said.
The incident comes after the horrific gang rape of a mother and her teenage daughter on NH91 in Bulandshahr.
(With inputs from PTI)
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