JAIPUR: A 10-year-old girl was raped in Churu’s Bhanipura police station area on Monday and a case was lodged on Tuesday late night. The accused is yet to be traced and police have initiated an investigation into the matter.
Churu SP Paris Deshmukh said, “The accused was known to the child and after the girl told her parents about the incident, they registered a complaint with us. The accused is not a relative of the survivor’s family but is from the same village and caste.”
According to the complainant, on Monday, the girl’s parents asked the accused to drop their daughter back home from the field where they had been working. The accused took the girl on a cattle cart and enroute raped her. The child narrated her ordeal to her mother following which the villagers started looking for the accused at their own level but when they could not find him, they lodged a FIR at the local police station where a case under the POCSO act was registered.
The girl’s medical examination was done on Tuesday night and officials claimed that she was doing fine health wise. The accused is said to be in his 30s and a team has been constituted to look for him.
The police data shows that in over 90% cases, the accused are known to the rape survivors and in majority of these cases, they usually are relatives.
Recently, a 12-year-old girl was found to be five months pregnant after she complained of stomachache. The case was registered in Jhotwara police station and in this case also the accused was known to the child as they stayed in the same locality in rented accommodations. According to officials, the girl did not say anything about the assault as the accused had threatened her to keep mum. Cops are yet to arrest him.