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  • BJP, JDU leaders among four arrested for raping minor girl in Bhopal

    By Express News Service

    Bhopal: A BJP leader and JDU leader have been arrested by Bhopal police on Tuesday for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl hailing from Haryana, who was pushed into prostitution.

    The Ashoka Garden Police arrested three men (all hailing from Madhya Pradesh’s Dindori district) for allegedly raping the teenage girl at a hotel in Bhopal’s TT Nagar area last month.

    The arrested trio includes ruling BJP’s former mandal president and present office secretary of Dindori district Manish Nayak, JD(U) Dindori district president Dinesh Awadhiya and petrol pump owner Amit Soni. The arrested BJP leader’s wife is a corporator at the Dindori Nagar Palika Parishad.

    “The arrested trio has been booked for rape under IPC section and also under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act 2012,” additional SP (ASP-Bhopal) Rajesh Bhadoriya confirmed to The New Indian Express on Wednesday.

    First, the police arrested the two women, who had pushed the girl into prostitution and the man who allegedly raped her at a hotel in Ashoka Garden area, the other three accused who raped her at a hotel in TT Nagar area were arrested from Dindori district on Tuesday.

    The 16-year-old girl, a resident of Palwal district in Haryana had fled from home following scolding by family on August 13. She boarded a train to Agra, where she met two women Seema and Parul (both Bhopal residents). When the girl told them that she was going to Mumbai in search of a job, the two women instead promised to arrange a much better job for her in Bhopal, after which she accompanied them to Bhopal.

    But instead of getting the Haryana girl a job in Bhopal, the two women pushed her into prostitution and locked her in a room in Ashoka Garden area of the MP capital. She was first raped by a man at a hotel in Ashoka Garden area and later by three men from Dindori district (including the two politicians) at a hotel in Bhopal’s TT Nagar area.

    Last month the minor escaped from the room where she was locked by the two women and reported the matter to Ashoka Garden police, which lodged a case.

  • Maharashtra: Court acquits Bhiwandi woman of flesh trade charge  

    By PTI

    THANE: The district court here in Maharashtra has acquitted a 30-year-old woman, a resident of Bhiwandi, of trafficking and pushing women into prostitution charges for want of sufficient evidence.

    Special judge (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) and additional sessions judge Kavita Shirbhate said in her order that the prosecution has “miserably failed” to prove all the charges against the woman, who hails from West Bengal.

    The copy of the order passed on August 13 was made available on Saturday.

    Special Public Prosecutor Sanjay More told the court that police had registered an FIR against the woman under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act in July 2014 on a complaint that she was trafficking women and young girls from West Bengal and pushing them into flesh trade in Bhiwandi in the Thane district.

    “If the evidence of prosecution witness is considered, witnesses have stated that the present accused had pressured the victim for the purpose of prostitution and was taking money. However, the prosecution has not examined both the victim girls to corroborate the evidence of witnesses. Therefore, I held that the the evidence of witnesses is not helpful to prove the ingredients of sections 3, 4 and 6 of the PITA Act,” the judge noted.

    “The prosecution also failed to prove that the accused had abetted to the use of minor victim girl as a prostitute by committing sexual harassment against her and forcing the victim for illicit sexual relations with unknown customers. I held that the prosecution has miserably failed to prove the charges levelled against the accused beyond all reasonable doubts,” the order said.

  • Over 20 people held for running prostitution racket in raid at Greater Noida hotel

    By PTI
    NOIDA: Twenty-three people, including 12 women, were arrested for an alleged prostitution racket in a raid by the police at a hotel in Greater Noida on Saturday, officials said.

    Involvement of local police officials is also suspected in the operation of the racket, Greater Noida Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajesh Kumar Singh said.

    “The hotel is located in the Dankaur police station area where a police raid was carried out by a team led by the assistant commissioner of police (Greater Noida 3) over information of prostitution racket.

    Twelve women, 11 men, including the hotel manager, have been arrested and objectionable items have been seized from the hotel,” Singh said.

    The officer said the role of the local police has also come under the scanner and some personnel have been found guilty in the initial investigation.

    “Four police constables, a head constable and a driver are being shunted to the police lines with immediate effect. A report is being prepared over the role of the local Mandi Shyam Nagar police chowki in-charge, who was transferred out three days ago, and the local Dankaur police station in-charge as well,” Singh said.

    An inquiry is being conducted by the additional deputy commissioner of police into the role of these police officials, he added.

    Legal proceedings are being carried out against the 23 arrested people and they would be sent to jail, the officer said.