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Tag: Minor rape

  • Man held for kidnap, rape of 3-year-old girl in Maharashtra’s Palghar

    By PTI
    PALGHAR: Police have arrested a man for allegedly kidnapping and raping a three-year-old girl in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, an official said on Tuesday.

    The incident took place on Saturday when the 38-year- old accused barged into the victim’s hut at a village in Talasari taluka while she was sleeping with her mother.

    The accused allegedly kidnapped the child and took her to a nearby field where he raped her.

    He then abandoned the girl at the spot and fled, Talasari police station’s inspector Ajay Vasave said.

    Later, the child’s parents found her in the field and rushed her to a rural hospital where she is currently undergoing treatment, he said.

    The police sought the help of a dog squad and traced the accused, who worked at a factory in the neighbouring Union Territory of Daman, on the basis of slippers which he left at the spot before running away, he said.

    The accused was arrested on Sunday and a case was registered against him under Indian Penal Code Sections for rape and kidnapping, and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

    He was on Monday produced before a local magistrate who remanded him in police custody till January 6, the police said.

  • 6-year-old girl found raped, murdered in Punjab’s Jalandhar 

    By PTI
    CHANDIGARH: A six-year-old girl, who went missing on Saturday evening, was allegedly raped and then killed in Punjab’s Jalandhar district, police said.

    Her body was found from a sugarcane field in Hazara village located on the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur road on Sunday, they said.

    The victim’s parents, who belong to Bihar and work as labourers, on Saturday lodged a complaint about their missing child after they failed to find her home when they returned from work.

    Santosh, who stays near their home and is a distant relative of victim’s family, told them that he took her on a bicycle to get biscuits and later left her back at home.

    When the girl’s parents started searching her in nearby areas, Santosh absconded, said the police.

    Later, the family lodged a complaint against Santosh, said a police official.

    The girl’s body found on Sunday, said the official.

    Initial investigations suggest that the girl was raped and then killed.

    The body has been sent for post mortem, said the police.

    A case of kidnapping, rape and murder under the IPC and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act has been registered, the police said, adding that efforts were on to nab Santosh.