LUDHIANA: The Focal Point police on Friday arrested a labourer for raping his neighbour twice and making her pregnant. The accused kept lying to the girl’s family that he would marry her, hiding the fact that he was already married. However, when he refused to marry her, the girl on Thursday lodged an FIR against him.
The 17-year-old girl told police that in November 2016, the accused had taken her to his room and raped her, then threatened her to keep mum, following which she did not tell her parents about it. She added that on December 27 last year, the accused again raped her after taking her home. When she turned pregnant, she narrated the whole incident to her parents, and said she was seven months pregnant, but the accused had refused to marry her. She later came to know he was already married, and had cheated her.
Inspector Amandeep Singh said a case under Section 376 (rape) of the IPC, and Section 8 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act had been registered against the accused. The police have arrested him on Friday.
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