A minor boy was detained by the police for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl at knife-point inside an under-construction building in Ashok Vihar area of northwest Delhi on Tuesday, police said today.

According to the police, the 16-year-old victim and her 18-year-old elder sister, were held by the boy at knife-point in an under-construction building where the girls’ parents worked as labourers.

A senior police officer said the victim lives with her parents and older sister in a makeshift accommodation inside the under-construction building and boy had allegedly broken in to the premises with an intention to rob the girl’s family of their valuables.

Giving details, the officer said the victim and her 18-year-old sister were home alone as their parents had gone to collect their wages, and taking advantage of the situation, the accused threatened the sisters with a knife and then took the younger sister at knife-point to a secluded spot in the building where he allegedly raped her.

He said that the girl’s parents filed a complaint, based on which a case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was registered and the minor boy was detained.

The officer further said that it is being investigated if the under construction-building was a school, adding that further probe is underway and more details will follow.

In a related incident, in March, a 54-year-old man who worked as a peon at an MCD school in Delhi’s Gazipur, was arrested after Class 5 girl student was allegedly gang-raped by the peon and three of his accomplices inside the premises.

In a statement, the Delhi Police had said, the accused, identified as Ajay, was nabbed while the police are on the lookout for his accomplices.

They said the peon in the MCD school, along with his accomplices, sedated the girl and then sexually assaulted her. As per reports, the peon had been working in the MCD school for a decade and is a native of Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh and currently resided in Ghaziabad.

The incident reportedly transpired on March 14, following which the minor girl stopped attending school and also remained absent for her final exams. After the minor failed to appear for the exam, the minor’s teacher contacted her brother who narrated the ordeal to the teacher.

Congress leader KC Venugopal has claimed that his mobile number was illegally cloned by hackers and used for making fraudulent calls for ulterior motives.

The AICC general secretary in a tweet said that his office has filed a complaint in this regard with Kerala Police chief Anil Kant.

Sharing a copy of the complaint on his official Twitter handle, Venugopal wrote on Wednesday, that since Tuesday, hackers have impersonated his phone number and used it make spam calls by using caller ID spoofing.

The Congress veteran urged his contacts to report any suspicious calls and avoid responding to the spoof calls by hackers if possible, adding that his office has filed a complaint with the Kerala Police and swift action is expected.

The complaint filed by KC Venugopal’s secretary K Sarat Chandran has listed instances of two persons receiving such alleged illegal phone calls from the Congress leader’s cloned mobile number.

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Chandran in the complaint stated that a man identified as Yogesh Babu purportedly received a call from Venugopal’s number asking him to furnish certain documents to sabotage the selection process of candidates. In another instance, money transfer was allegedly requested from ‘ManMohan’ again for the selection of candidates.

Both calls were not made by the Congress veteran, according to his secretary.

Further, the complaint claimed that unidentified people impersonating KC Venugopal or persons from his staff, had been illegally and fraudulently calling certain individuals from cloned SIM cards for “ulterior motives and for the purpose of sabotaging the selection processes of candidates and/or duping individuals of their money.”

The complaint by Venugopal’s secretary stated that such cybercrime necessitates appropriate legal proceedings, including criminal investigation under the prevailing laws against the unidentified hackers so they aren’t able to cause any harm to any innocent people.

A senior police official said a case has been registered in this regard and is being investigated.

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An alcohol addict man allegedly beat his wife to death after she stopped him from drinking in Jharkhand. The deceased woman was his 12th wife.

Reports said the accused Ram Chandra Turi got married 11 times and all of his wives left him as he was addicted to alcohol. Twenty years ago, Turi married Savitri Devi and had four children with her.

Incident took place in the absence of children

Children were out of town when the incident took place. While one of them works as a labourer in Hyderabad, the other three went to attend a wedding function, reports said.

Villagers said Turi returned home sloshed and started drinking at home again following which Savitri Devi stopped him. This led to a clash between Turi and Devi and he started beating her with a stick.

Cops arrest the accused after investigation

Reports said his wife fainted, however, Turi kept hitting her with the stick till she lost her life.

After the children returned home, they saw their mother lying on the floor covered with blood. The neighbours informed the police following which Turi was arrested after an investigation.

Similar incident in Jharkhand

This is not the first time when such an incident has been reported from Jharkhand. In a similar incident, a man was arrested on March 15 for allegedly murdering his wife. The incident took place in West Singhbhum district.

Reports said the accused, Nirmal Kerai, murdered his wife, Phulmoni, in an inebriated state after she stopped him from drinking.

Kerai killed his wife and slept in the same house along with their six children. He went to work the next day in the morning, reports said.