A man was booked for molesting a 13-year-old girl in her house in Meharban here on Friday.
The accused, who hails from Hoshiarpur, had been in a relationship with the girl’s mother for five years. In her complaint, the victim’s mother said the accused had come to the house in her absence and asked her teenaged daughter to remove her clothes, after which he molested her and threatened her. The girl’s siblings were alerted by the girl’s wails, and raised the alarm after which the accused fled.
The accused had been living in a rented accommodation near the complainant’s house and would visit her on the weekends. The 35-year-old woman’s husband had left her and their four children after learning of her affair.
Assistant sub-inspector Kamaljit Singh, who is investigating the case, said an FIR had been lodged under Sections 354 (outraging a woman’s modesty) of the Indian Penal Code and Sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The accused is on the run.