Man held for raping 11-yr-old girl on school premises: Pune city police

Confirming the arrest, Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta said the suspect was an acquaintance of the girl’s father and had worked with him in the past. The man was nabbed based on leads from security camera footage and clues gathered by multiple investigation teams.

The rape had taken place on Wednesday afternoon, when classes in the victim’s school were about to begin. “The girl had come to the school some time before the classes were to assemble. Using some pretext, the person took the girl towards the area of the school where the washroom blocks are located, near the playground. He raped and sexually abused her. The incident came to light after the girl told some of her friends about what had happened. The friends in turn informed the school authorities. Subsequently, the parents of the girl were informed and they approached the police,” said the in-charge inspector of the police station where the case was registered.

Officials who are part of the investigation said the girl kept refusing to accompany the man to the washroom blocks but he forced her to do so.

Police registered an offence under Indian Penal Code sections for rape and provision of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. An extensive manhunt involving multiple teams had been launched for the suspect. Police are investigating how he managed to enter the school premises.

The case has come to light at a time when Pune Police are probing a case in which an 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her father several times in 2017 when they were in Bihar, and by her brother in 2020 when they moved to Pune.

Sources have confirmed to The Indian Express that the investigation team, which had been sent for the arrest of father, has detained him from a location in Bihar and he was being brought to Pune.