Man rapes minor daughter, niece for over an year, held

JAIPUR: In a chilling case, a 44-year-old man raped his 17-year-old daughter and his 12-year-old niece multiple times for over 12 months until the girls decided to flee his captivity and narrated their ordeal to the family and the police.
The Pratap Nagar police on Wednesday arrested the accused, who works as a labourer in the city. “He is a native of Uttar Pradesh and has been living in Jaipur with his family for past many years. He raped his daughter on more than three occasions, the accused also admitted to have raped his niece who was 11-years-old when the incident happened,” said SHO Mohammed Islam Khan.

The accused said that he always raped the minor girls in an inebriated condition. “Whenever the accused’s wife and other family members went out to some family function etc. he would stay back and rape the girls,” an official told TOI.

A few days ago both the girls fled from their house to avoid constant humiliation and sexual assault. “The family searched for them everywhere, and finally found them in Sanganer area. The two were fear stricken and horrified, when they came home, the girls told their mothers that the accused was raping them all this while and threatened them not to alert any other family member,” the official said, adding that when the wife filed a case against her husband for raping her daughter, the Pratap Nagar police arrested the accused.

A case under multiple sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was lodged. “He was produced before the court from where he was sent to a one day remand, we are currently interrogating him. He admitted to his crime and confessed that whenever his wife went out of their house, he raped his daughter,” Khan said, adding that the accused had also been booked under the newly revised criminal provision of law which seeks stringent punishment, including death penalty for convicts who rape girls under the age of 12.

The police are now recording statements of the two girls, the official, however, told TOI on condition of anonymity that rape survivors are traumatized.