Driving Naari Programme launched in Chandigarh
Kalaburagi: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 70-year-old man within the jurisdiction of Revoor police station in Kalaburagi district of Karnataka.
Following a complaint by the teenager’s parents, the elderly accused was arrested by the police on Thursday.
As per case details, on November 29 afternoon, the septuagenarian lured the minor girl to his field by promising her that he’d give her the eatables which, he claimed, were kept there. After she went there, he allegedly sexually assaulted her.
In the evening, the minor’s parents came back home from work and found her crying. On being questioned, she narrated her harrowing ordeal before her parents. The following day, her parents approached the police and lodged a complaint against the elderly man, according to a report published by The Times of India.
The accused was arrested from a relative’s house on Thursday. He has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the TOI report stated.
In another incident, a 16-year-old girl allegedly attempted suicide in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district last week, reportedly after a relative of hers repeatedly sexually assaulted her. Her relative in question has been arrested by the local police.
The teenage girl is a student of a private school. The accused, a labourer by profession, had promised her that he would tie the nuptial knot with her. He raped her for the first time in January. He, thereafter, repeatedly sexually assaulted her. The girl slipped into depression. On Tuesday last week, she went to her school, where she slit a vein on her left hand inside one of the restrooms. School teachers, after being informed by other girls, rushed her to a hospital for treatment. Later, the crime was reported to the police and the accused was arrested.
