A 50-year-old Indian man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a nine-year-old girl while shifting her to a shelter home set up for the purpose of Cyclone Yaas evacuation.
After learning about the crime that took place in Jharkhand, the victim's mother submitted a written police complaint against the accused Sagar Pal. On the basis of the complaint, the police registered a case.
“A First Information Report has been lodged against him under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act,” said police officer Ranjit Singh, reported Hindustan Times.
Activist Pushpa Rani Tirkey said that the girl will get counseling at a childcare institute. “The girl told the police...that Sagar Pal shifted her grandparents and cousins to the shelter home ... Later he took her to the toilet behind the shelter home and sexually abused her late on Wednesday," she said.
"When she cried, he took her into the car again saying that he would take her to her mother and aunt. But he made her sit in his lap while driving the car and sexually assaulted her again,” she added.
She shared that the people are angry and have left the shelter home. “They were angry how such a thing could happen in a government shelter home. If girls and women are not safe in the shelter home, why should they stay there?”
In a separate incident in India, cops on Friday said that a 26-year-old man was arrested on charges of raping a minor girl in Maharashtra, reported News18. The man raped the girl on May 24. She was threatened with a knife at Navghar in Bhayander town on Mumbai’s outskirts, the police said.
A FIR was registered against the accused at the Navghar police station under relevant sections of the IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on the basis of a complaint filed by the victim’s mother.
During the investigation, the police were informed that the accused, who is a resident of Bhayander, was thinking of going to Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh from Kurla station in Mumbai. A trap was laid by police, and before he could leave Mumbai, the accused was arrested on Thursday.
