New Delhi: The Delhi Police arrested a 28-year-old man for raping a minor girl in north Delhi’s Wazirabad area. According to a complaint filed by the girl’s parents, the 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped by the neighbor in September.
The accused person works as a cook in the Gandhi Nagar area. He was arrested on Tuesday. Police said the matter came to light after the girl narrated her ordeal to her mother following which she approached the Wazirabad Police.
According to the police, both the neighbor and the girl’s family share the same house separated by rooms. After the incident “The victim was also threatened with threatening consequences if she reported the matter to anyone,”
Based on the minor’s medical report, a case was registered under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North).
In another rape case, four people have been detained in connection with the alleged abduction and gang rape of a 38-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, police said on Wednesday.
The Delhi Commission of Women (DCW) has issued a notice to the Ghaziabad Police to furnish a copy of the FIR along with details of the arrested accused and a report of the action taken report by October 21.
The woman was allegedly kidnapped and gang raped for two days. She was found in a pool of blood, with an iron rod inserted in her private parts, a statement by the DCW read Delhi Commission for Women statement said.
According to the police, they were intimated of the gang rape in a complaint filed by the woman. The woman was allegedly abducted while she was returning from a birthday party on September 16. She told the police that she was gang-raped by five men in Ghaziabad over a period of two days.
