Auto driver arrested for raping 13-year-old girl

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Sep 25 2017 : The Yelahanka New Town police have arrested a 25-year-old autorickshaw driver on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl when she was alone at her house on September 21.

 

The victim’s parents lodged a complaint with jurisdictional police after the doctors confirmed sexual assault on examining the victim. The police arrested Girish, a native of Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh, on Saturday and produced him before the magistrate, who remanded the accused to judicial custody.

According to the police, the victim, a Class VI student, had returned home from school on September 12. The suspect, a distant relative and a neighbour, barged into the house and raped her. He threatened to kill her, if she informed to anyone about the incident.

The victim’s parents, both construction workers, noticed that their daughter looked unwell and was down with a fever. They took the her to a doctor.

Girish went absconding soon after the victim’s parents lodged complaint.

The police arrested the suspect based on call detail record and booked him under IPC Section 376 (rape) various sections of POCSO Act on Saturday. The accused is engaged and supposed to get married in the last week of November, this year, the police said.

courtesy:DHNS