YAMUNANAGAR: Police have arrested three persons, including two women in a case of sexual assault and exploitation of a 14-year-old girl, who was allegedly assaulted by several persons at different times. She is now about five months pregnant.
The accused include two women and the husband of one of them. “All the three accused were produced in the district court on Thursday, which remanded the man to four-day police custody, a woman to five-day police custody and the other woman to judicial custody.”
Sources said the survivor is a student of Class VI in a government school. Police registered a case on the complaint of the girl’s father under Sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 372 (selling minor for purpose of prostitution), 376-DA (punishment for gang rape on woman under sixteen years of age), 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 6 (punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and 17 (punishment for abetment) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on April 13.
In his police complaint, the girl’s father said, “My daughter was not feeling well for several days. When my wife asked her about the problem, she disclosed the ordeal and everything that had been happening behind our back. I and my wife used to go out to work and the woman and her husband would call her to their house. She told her mother that one day the woman and her husband locked her in a room with a man, who sexually assaulted her.”
He added, “After this, the couple used to take her in their vehicle to different places, where different people sexually assaulted her. The couple used to live in our neighbourhood and had now shifted to some other place. The woman had threatened my daughter of dire consequences if she told anyone about the incidents of sexual assault.”
Police said further investigation is on.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)