Four-year-old girl raped in W Delhi

A four-year-old girl was reportedly raped in west Delhi on Thursday night, the police said. Initial investigations show that a person known to the girl might have raped her, possibly her neighbour, the police said. HT reports.

A four-year-old girl was reportedly raped in west Delhi on Thursday night, the police said. Initial investigations show that a person known to the girl might have raped her, possibly her neighbour, the police said. According to the police, the alleged rapist was on the run.

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According to the police, the girl was raped near her house at 9pm, when she was going to a nearby Sai Sandhya Puja. The police picked up several people from the locality for questioning.

Although a case was registered at the Khyala police station, the police were still on the look out for the accused, whose identity was not disclosed.

“We are questioning a few people from the locality. We believe it to be the work of a person who knew the girl. We will be certain only after further investigations are conducted in the matter,” said V Renganathan, deputy commissioner of police (west).

The deputy commissioner said the girl was raped when she ran out to attend a religious gathering happening in the area. “When the family found her missing, they went searching for her. After some search, they found her crying on a pavement,” he said.

The girl was taken to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital where her medical examination confirmed sexual assault.

In another incident, a man in Outer Delhi's Shahbad Dairy area allegedly raped his 23-year-old tenant on Thursday afternoon. According to the police, the landlord, Shambhu Nath Mandal, called on the woman at her house, where she lived with her husband and five-year-old son, to discuss rent and then allegedly sexually assaulted her.

The police arrested Mandal after the woman’s medical examination at Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital confirmed rape.