A 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by the caretaker of a house owned by the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) member of parliament from Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh Police officials said yesterday.

According to the complaint by the girl’s father, she was returning home on Saturday night after attending a wedding ceremony when the accused, also a minor, forced her at gunpoint inside the house in the town’s Shiv Colony and sexually assaulted her.