VADODARA: A routine session of ‘good touch and bad touch’ for school children at a residential building complex in Maneja area of Vadodara on Wednesday brought out horrifying details of sexual assault that three minor girls aged 12, 9 and 6 years, had been facing for over a year.
On Thursday police arrested a 44-year-old man working with a multinational company, for allegedly raping the minors living in his building.
Police said that the accused Rajnikant Mahto had been exploiting the girls for over a year by calling the girls to his house or while in the building’s elevator.
Mahto’s misdeeds came to light on Wednesday when one of the girls started crying during a ‘good touch, bad touch’ session that was conducted by a woman in the building. On being asked, the 12-year-old told how Mahto had been exploiting her.
After hearing about it, two siblings – a nine-year-old girl and her six-year-old sister – claimed that they too have gone through the same ordeal. All three girls used to go to the woman to get their queries in school lessons solved.
The woman then informed the girls’ parents about what she heard from the girls. When their parents asked, the girls confirmed and said that all these months they did not say anything as Mahto had threatened them. The parents then called the police and got Mahto arrested.
During the interrogation, Mahto told cops that he used to lure the girl to his house when his wife would not be around by offering them sweets and chocolates. He would then touch the girls inappropriately, said police.
“We have booked the accused under section 376 AB, 2N of the amended law on rape. We are also investigating if he had targeted other girls or women from the building or elsewhere,” said inspector R A Patel of Makarpura police station. Mahto was also booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Police officials said that Mahto works as a contract workers’ supervisor in the MNC’s facility in Maneja.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
On Thursday police arrested a 44-year-old man working with a multinational company, for allegedly raping the minors living in his building.
Police said that the accused Rajnikant Mahto had been exploiting the girls for over a year by calling the girls to his house or while in the building’s elevator.
Mahto’s misdeeds came to light on Wednesday when one of the girls started crying during a ‘good touch, bad touch’ session that was conducted by a woman in the building. On being asked, the 12-year-old told how Mahto had been exploiting her.
After hearing about it, two siblings – a nine-year-old girl and her six-year-old sister – claimed that they too have gone through the same ordeal. All three girls used to go to the woman to get their queries in school lessons solved.
The woman then informed the girls’ parents about what she heard from the girls. When their parents asked, the girls confirmed and said that all these months they did not say anything as Mahto had threatened them. The parents then called the police and got Mahto arrested.
During the interrogation, Mahto told cops that he used to lure the girl to his house when his wife would not be around by offering them sweets and chocolates. He would then touch the girls inappropriately, said police.
“We have booked the accused under section 376 AB, 2N of the amended law on rape. We are also investigating if he had targeted other girls or women from the building or elsewhere,” said inspector R A Patel of Makarpura police station. Mahto was also booked under various sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Police officials said that Mahto works as a contract workers’ supervisor in the MNC’s facility in Maneja.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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