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  • 16-year-old pregnant after being raped in UP; accused held

    By PTI
    CHITRAKOOT: A 24-year-old man has been arrested on the charges of raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh’s Chitrakoot district, police said on Monday.

    The girl’s father had lodged a police complaint against the man, following which he was arrested on Sunday, Karvi Station House Officer (SHO) Virendra Tripathi said.

    Two months ago, the accused had called the minor to his house on the pretext of watching television, and raped her after threatening to kill her, the SHO said, citing the complaint.

    “The girl was sent for medical examination and was found two months pregnant,” Tripathi said.

  • Woman raped in Raipur; four persons, including two minors, held

    By PTI
    RAIPUR: A 19-year-old woman has been allegedly raped by a man, while his three friends also tried to sexually assault her in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district, a police official said on Thursday.

    The incident took place late Tuesday evening following which two of the accused men have been arrested, while the two others, who are minors, have been detained, he said.

    At around 8.30 pm on Tuesday, when the survivor and her two male friends were sitting at a deserted place while returning from a market, the four accused reached there on a motorcycle.

    They allegedly beat up the woman’s friends, took away their cash and forced them to leave, the official from Mandir Hasaud police said.

    One of the accused, aged 22, then allegedly raped the woman, the official said.

    When his other associates also tried to sexually assault the woman, some locals reached there.

    The accused then fled from the spot, he said.

    Later, the survivor along with her parents went to the police station and lodged an FIR.

    The police subsequently arrested two of the accused and detained two minor boys.

    A case has been registered under relevant Indian Penal Code sections, the official said.

  • Former village head rapes, impregnates teenage girl in UP’s Fatehpur

    By PTI
    FATEHPUR: A former village head has been booked for allegedly raping a teenage girl and impregnating her in Fatehpur district in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Thursday.

    Based on a complaint filed by the girl’s father, a case was registered against the 50-year-old former village head on Wednesday under relevant sections of the IPC and the POCSO Act, a police officer said.

    The accused, however, claimed that it was “fake case” lodged against him as panchyat elections are approaching.

    According to the complaint, the accused raped the girl around five months ago and threatened her not to reveal it to anyone.

    The girl told her mother about it earlier this week on being asked if she was pregnant.

    The girl has been sent for medical examination and the matter is being probed, the police officer said.

  • UP: Teen booked for rape after Unnao girl gives birth

    By PTI
    UNNAO: A teenager has been booked for alleged rape in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao district after a 15-year-old girl gave birth to a child, police said on Monday.

    According to a complaint by the girl’s grandfather, the boy, who lives in the neighbourhood, allegedly raped the girl when she was alone in the House.

    The complainant said he did not lodge an FIR earlier due to social stigma.

    The boy, around 16 years old, was held on Friday by the police and produced before the Juvenile Justice Board and sent to a juvenile home, an officer said.

    The suspect has been booked on the charges of rape, criminal intimidation and under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Friday after the girl gave birth to a baby boy in district hospital Thursday.

    “We will be going for his DNA test after consent of his parents to ascertain the reality,” the officer said.

    While the suspect is a high school dropout, the girl and her two younger siblings are living with their maternal grandfather after death of their mother, police said.

  • Minor girl raped by shopkeeper and his son in UP’s Ballia

    By PTI
    BALLIA: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man and his son in a village, police said on Saturday.

    The girl had gone to buy some items from a shop in the village under Dokati police station area three months ago when the shopkeeper allegedly raped her and threatened her against telling anyone about it, they said quoting the complaint given by the girl’s father.

    The father has also stated that when she went to the same shop again a week later, the shopkeeper’s son allegedly raped her and threatened to kill her family members incase she told anyone, police said.

    The girl’s family took her to a doctor on Thursday when she was not feeling well after the incident.

    They came to know that she was three months pregnant and the matter came to light, they said.

    Superintendent of Police Vipin Tada said on the complaint of the girl’s father, an FIR has been lodged against the two accused on Friday and the girl has been sent for a medical examination.

  • Woman gang-raped in UP’s Badaun; 6 including 5 minors held

    By PTI
    BADAUN: A 32-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in the jungles of Faizganj Behta police station area about five months ago but the incident came to light after the video of the incident went viral on social media recently, police said on Friday.

    Six accused, including five minors, have been taken into custody on the basis of the FIR lodged on the basis of the complaint lodged by the victim on Thursday, police said.

    In the complaint, the woman has stated that about five months ago she had gone to the jungles to collect wood when five youths gang-raped her while the sixth one made a video of the incident, police said.

    She said that the culprits threatened to make the video viral and kill her husband and children if she told anyone about the incident, police said.

    It was only after the video was circulated on social media that she registered a complaint, police said, adding that the accused were apprehended late Thursday night.

    SSP Badaun, Sankalp Sharma said one of the accused had also sold the video to some people in the village and surrounding areas for Rs 300.

    Investigations are on and strict action will be taken, he added.

  • Jharkhand girl raped, poisoned to death; para-teacher arrested

    By PTI
    MEDININAGAR: A para-teacher has been arrested for allegedly raping and poisoning a 13- year-old girl to death in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, police said on Friday.

    The girl, with whose family the 35-year-old accused had a land dispute, was raped inside an empty classroom in a school in Panki police station area on Wednesday and was then poisoned, Lesliganj Sub-divisional Police Officer Anup Kumar Baraik said.

    She died while undergoing treatment at a hospital on Thursday, the officer said, adding that the accused has been arrested.

    The post-mortem report of the girl has confirmed that she was raped and poisoned, the officer added.

  • Daily wage worker held for raping minor daughter in Rajasthan

    By PTI
    KOTA: A 30-year-old native of Madhya Pradesh was arrested here for allegedly raping his minor daughter repeatedly for three to four months in a village under Dabi police station area of the district, police said on Saturday.

    The accused man would be produced before a local court later in the day.

    The police said the man, a daily-wage labourer and native of Raisen district in Madhya Pradesh, was apprehended on Friday evening for raping his 10-year-old daughter repeatedly for 3-4 months, Dabi police station SHO Sampat Singh said.

    On a complaint of something untoward with the minor girl in his locality, the village sarpanch of the area on Thursday evening informed the police.

    A police team reached the spot and rescued the minor girl along with her two younger siblings (a 7-year-old boy and 5-year-old girl) and produced the survivor before a Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in the intervening nights of Thursday and Friday, he added.

    The minor survivor, upon counseling by the CWC and a lady constable, revealed that her father had been repeatedly raping her and on the day of Makar Sankranti (January 14) had raped her several times in inebriated condition following which her condition deteriorated with pain in her abdomen and lower body, the SHO said.

    As the accused man was not in good relations with his wife and would often quarrel with her, he had left his wife with her parents and took the three minor children with him around four months ago to Dabi area of Bundi district.

    In the village, he rented out accommodation and worked as a daily wage worker, leaving the children alone at home most of the time, the SHO further said.

    The accused would return home drunk everyday and rape the eldest minor daughter that continued for around four months with the survivor suffering pain and complications.

    She disclosed the ordeal to some neighbouring women on Thursday evening, he added.

    On the direction of the CWC, the police booked the accused father under Section 376 of IPC and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and arrested him on Friday evening, he said adding the accused would be produced before a court later on Saturday.

    The medical examination was carried out upon the minor survivor on Friday and procedure for recording the minor survivor’s statement before the magistrate is underway, he further said.

    On the order by the CWC, the minor survivor and her two siblings were sent to separate shelter homes in Bundi, he added.

  • 50-year-old widow raped, impregnated in UP’s Mahoba: Police 

    The woman has claimed that she is pregnant and has also alleged that the accused has threatened to kill her, the SHO said.

  • Maharashtra: 5-year-old girl raped, killed in Nanded

    By PTI
    AURANGABAD: A five-year-old girl has been allegedly raped and killed by a man in Maharashtra’s Nanded district, police said on Thursday.

    The incident took place on Wednesday near a river in Divshi village of Nanded following which the accused was arrested, an official from Bhokar police station said.

    The 35-year-old accused worked as a labourer at a farm owned by the girl’s family.

    On Wednesday afternoon, the accused took the girl to a riverside where he allegedly raped her and then strangulated her to death, a police official said.

    The accused was later found near the spot and was arrested, the police said, adding that the body was sent for postmortem.

    Superintendent of Police Pramodkumar Shewale told PTI that the girl’s father saw her with the accused around 2 pm.

    Later, around 5 pm, when she was not found, her father and relatives went to a local police station and submitted a complaint, he said.

    The police are conducting an investigation into the case, he added.