Two minors raped by relatives, one arrested

NEW DELHI: A ten-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her brother-in-law for almost a month in northeast Delhi’s Bharat Nagar, police said on Tuesday.

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The girl and her family members were living at the brother-in-law’s home as tenants for the last six months. Police learnt he raped the girl when her parents, who worked as labourers, went out for work.

The girl in her statement told police that whenever she resisted his advances, her brother-in-law beat her up. He threatened to kill her and her family members if she told anybody about it.

An FIR under relevant sections of protection of children from sexual offences (POCSO) Act and IPC were registered against the relative at the B ha rat Na gar police station.

The suspect, a sanitation worker, was arrested.

The crime came to light on Monday, when the girl cried in pain while her mother gave her a bath. She became suspicious and asked her daughter. The girl initially gave vague excuses, but later narrated her ordeal.

The ten-year-old told her mother that she was raped by the relative for around a month. She told her the accused used to rape her in the room after sending her siblings out to play. “He had asked her not to tell anybody about the rape. She never mustered courage to inform her parents about it as she lived in fear,” said the officer.

The girl’s mother informed her husband and they in turn approached the police. The girl’s medical examination confirmed rape. “The accused was at work when we raided his office and arrested him,” the officer added.

In a similar crime in south Delhi’s Govindpuri, a three-year-old girl was raped by her 25-year-old relative in his rented room on Tuesday afternoon. The girl was dropped off a this house by her parents before they went to a nearby market for some work.

When the couple returned home, they found their daughter lying naked and bleeding from her private parts. “They rushed her to a hospital where doctors told them that she was raped. The police were informed about the crime by the doctors,” said a police officer.

A case was registered and efforts were on to trace and arrest the accused.