A Class IX student in Muzaffarpur and a homemaker from Uttar Pradesh who was visiting Buxar were allegedly gang-raped on Sunday, sending shockwaves through a state grappling with a burst in crime, but police added a twist in the tale by denying outright any such incident had occurred.

FIRs have been registered in both cases.

In the Muzaffarpur incident, which took place in the Bela-Chhapra area under Mithanpura police station on Sunday night, four persons allegedly entered the house of businessman Dilip Kushwaha, overpowered and tied him, and raped the minor girl who doubles as a domestic help.

According to the complaint, the accused then took the girl to a nearby orchard and raped her again. The girl, who studies in a government school in Muzaffarpur, around 75km north of Patna, had injury marks on her body. She, along with Kushwaha, approached the police on Monday morning to lodge an FIR, naming four persons.

Police said Kushwaha informed them that he knew the four men — Chandan Thakur, Sheru Thakur, Dilip Kumar and Babloo Kumar — and they knocked on his door. Finding no response, they entered the house through the terrace and raped the girl, the FIR says.

However, Muzaffarpur senior superintendent of police (SSP) Manoj Kumar told The Telegraph that the medical examination of the girl has not revealed that she was raped. “We had been conducting raids to nab the accused, but all are absconding. We found that the mother of one of them had passed away in the night, while another accused could not be identified by the people living at his residence,” Manoj Kumar said.

The SSP added that the girl has been put on counselling and her parents have been asked to come so she can narrate what actually happened.

In the Buxar incident, a 40-year-old woman who had come from Uttar Pradesh alleged that she was raped by seven persons after they rendered her husband unconscious with the help of some drug, took her to the banks of the Ganga at Chausa at knifepoint and raped her around midnight.

The woman had come to Brahmachaura in Chausa, around 140km west of Patna, to pray for a son. She and her husband lodged an FIR with the Buxar Mufassil police station on Monday morning.

However, police officials said the preliminary medical examination of the woman doesn’t suggest rape.

Buxar Sadar sub-divisional police officer Arun Kumar Gupta told The Telegraph that prima facie the case appeared to be a “false one”.

“No injury marks, blood or semen has been found on the body or clothes of the woman. Besides, all the seven accused persons are her relatives and the place of occurrence is also not some deserted spot. We think that she and husband have implicated the people out of enmity,” Gupta said.