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.

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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.

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Thirty-four girls among over 400 children were rescued from the New Delhi Railway Station in the national capital in a joint rescue drive by child rights bodies and the Northern Railways, an official statement said on Sunday.

According to the statement, the joint rescue drive was organized in association with Northern Railways, SATHI, Salam Baalak Trust and Prayas JAC Society at the New Delhi railway station with the help of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC)-Mayur Vihar, Varun Pathak of the CWC (Bench of Magistrates).

During the drive, 402 children, including 372 boys and 34 girls were rescued from the bustling railway station and handed over to the CWC for protection and care.

As per the statement, the rescued children—which included runaways, child labourers and those reported missing— have been sent to various child care institutions in the city after completing all legal formalities and procedures, adding that Railway Protection Force Police and Government Railway Police were also involved in the rescue drive.

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Thousands of children, which include runaways and those reported missing, work as child labourers and other menial jobs in and around the bustling and busy New Delhi Railway Station and its surrounding areas to sustain themselves.

Some even resort to begging while other unfortunate ones become an easy prey for child traffickers and pedophiles, reports have said.

According to Bengaluru-based child welfare NGO, Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situations or SATHI, which has been on a mission rescuing children from railway stations across India since 1992, at least 60,000 to 80,000 children end up at various railway platforms across the country each year and it is almost an impossible job to rescue them all.

As per SATHI’s data, most of the runaway children who escape to big cities belong to disadvantaged lower income groups and nearly 60 percent come from poor families from India’s most impoverished parts.

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In a tragic incident, six members of a family, including a minor, lost their lives after a fire engulfed their home in Shastri Park area of Delhi on Friday, officials said.

As per reports, the fire was apparently caused by a mosquito coil which tumbled onto a mattress during the night, setting the whole place on fire.

A senior police official said that the victims—which includes four men, a woman and child—apparently died due to suffocation caused by inhaling toxic fumes and burn injuries. He said that as per preliminary investigations, the deceased family members became unconscious due to inhaling toxic fumes generated by the inferno and ultimately succumbed due to suffocation.

Inspector Joy Tirkey of the Delhi Police said that six members of family were found dead at their Shastri park residence after they. inhaled carbon monoxide produced from the burning Mosquito coil that had fallen over a mattress sometime during the night.

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Officer Tirkey said poisonous vapors caused inmates to lose consciousness and subsequently caused their deaths due to asphyxiation, adding that two other members of the family currently undergoing treatment for burn injuries at a hospital while one has been discharged after first aid.

He said that incident is under investigation and exact cause of the fire is being ascertained.

In a similar incident, ten people, including three children, were injured after a fire erupted at a seven-storey residential building in Mumbai’s Mulund West earlier this month. The incident happened at around 2:55 pm at the Jagruti Society in Vithhal Nagar.

Rescue services and firemen successfully had rescued 80 people trapped in the burning building.

Officials at the time had said that the fire out in the electric meter room on the ground floor of the building and the smoke from the meter room spread to all its seven floors.

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