Neighbour rapes 6-year-old girl in Ichhapore
Surat: A six-year-old girl was raped in the Ichhapore police station jurisdiction here on Monday. The accused, a neighbour, allegedly abducted the girl from her house, tied her hands and stuffed a cloth in her mouth before raping her.
According to investigators, the victim lives with her parents and two siblings in a colony at Bhatlai village. On Monday morning, her father went to his workplace while her mother went to a house where she does domestic work.
The accused is a resident of the same colony. At about 1pm, he found the victim alone at home. He took the victim to his house, tied her hands, gagged her and raped her. After the crime, he threatened the victim with a knife and struck her with a metal rod, causing an injury near her eye.
He then left her near her house and fled. When her mother arrived, the victim told her what had happened. When the victim's father came home, they went to the police station and filed a complaint against the accused, who is absconding.
Ichhapore police have booked the accused under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Sections 137 (2), 87, 64 (2)(i), 65 (2), 74, 76, 351 (2), 115 (2) and Sections 3 (b), 4, 5 (M), 6, 8, 9 (M), 10, 11 (1), 12 and 18 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
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