Teen domestic help repeatedly raped by employer in city

BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR: Children continue to undergo sexual assault in the state despite the ambitious awareness campaign - Paree Pain Katha Tie - launched by the state police last week.
While a minor domestic help was allegedly raped by her employer in Chandasekarpur here on Monday, a schoolgirl at Jankia in Khurda district accused her teacher of raping her. It coincided with Kandhamal district police arresting two persons, including an auto-rickshaw driver, on Monday for allegedly raping a Class IX student in a forest near R.Nuagaon under Khajuripada police station limits on Saturday.

In the Bhubaneswar case, the Chandrasekharpur police registered a case against her employer, a contractor, on charges of outraging the modesty of his 12-year-old domestic help. "We have registered a case. The charges are being verified," deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Anup Kumar Sahoo said.

The girl, who is from Balasore district, alleged that she had been working in the contractor's house for the past two months. She alleged that he repeatedly raped her in the absence of his family members. The complainant reportedly escaped from the house by scaling the boundary wall on Sunday evening and narrated her plight to some locals, who took her to Chandrasekharpur police station. The child welfare committee (CWC) in Khurda too intervened and asked the police to take action against Singh, who is on the run.

Jankia police in Khurda district launched a manhunt to arrest a schoolteacher, who was on Monday booked for allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl. The girl also alleged that the teacher clicked her objectionable photographs.

In the Kandhamal case, the girl's father had filed a complaint with police on Sunday after she told him about the incident, he said.

The incident took place on Saturday when the girl was returning home from the local haat at Linepada around 7 pm in the three-wheeler. The accused forcibly took the girl to the forest, where they committed the crime and later dropped her near her house before fleeing.