35-year-old man held for raping, torturing minor girl with iron rod in Gujarat

The accused, father of three children, allegedly took the girl to a nearby water tank, gagged her, and attempted to rape her on December 4

Published on: Dec 10, 2025, 13:13:56 IST

By Maulik Pathak

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Ahmedabad: A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping and torturing a seven-year-old girl with an iron rod in a village of Gujarat’s Rajkot district on December 4, police said.

Ramsingh Tejsingh, a resident of Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, had worked in the Rajkot area as a farm labourer for the past couple of years.

The girl was accompanying her parents, who had migrated from Gujarat’s Dahod and worked as labourers, to the farm field.

The accused, father of three children, allegedly took the girl to a nearby water tank, gagged her, and attempted to rape her around 11am on December 4. He tortured her with a one-foot iron rod when he failed to rape her, according to police officers.

“The girl’s parents found her bleeding and took her to a hospital. She was transferred to the government children’s hospital in Rajkot where she remains under treatment,” inspector general (IG) of Rajkot Range Ashok Yadav said.

Superintendent of police (SP) of Rajkot (rural) Vijaysinh Gurjar said that the hospital alerted the police.

Based on the complaint lodged by the minor’s father, police registered a First Information Report (FIR) on December 8 under relevant section of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act.

Police formed ten teams, and CCTV footage from nearby villages and locations was collected and analysed. A list of 140 suspects was drawn up. All were called for questioning to verify their alibis. Police narrowed the list to ten individuals.

“Officers showed photographs to the victim with the help of a child counsellor, female police officers, and doctors. The girl identified one person. Police detained and questioned him,” Gurjar said.

“The man confessed to the crime during questioning. He attempted to rape the girl near a water tank around 11 am on December 4. When he failed, he got enraged and attacked the girl with an iron rod,” Gurjar added.

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Maulik Pathak
He is an Ahmedabad-based journalist with more than two decades of experience. His career spans business journalism and general news, with reporting across politics, crime, governance, public policy, business, industry, infrastructure, energy, ports, aviation, the environment, wildlife and social issues. He began his career in feature writing before moving into business journalism, reporting on companies and sectors including energy, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, automobiles and real estate. Over the years, his work expanded to politics, courts, crime, public policy, civic affairs, the environment and wildlife. His reporting has taken him from government offices and courtrooms to factory floors, ports, forests and remote villages, covering stories that range from industrial investments and financial markets to elections, conservation and issues affecting everyday life. While many assignments demand the pace of the daily news cycle, others require sustained reporting over months and years to follow developments beyond the headlines. He started his journalism career with the Asian Age in Ahmedabad in 2002 as a feature writer and sub-editor. Since 2022, he has been working with Hindustan Times. Earlier, he worked with Business Standard, DNA, The Economic Times, Mint and The Times of India. His longest stint was with Mint, where he spent more than eight years reporting across multiple beats. During his career, he has worked in both reporting and editing roles, contributing to page planning, local editions and special editorial projects as newsrooms evolved from print-first operations to digital publishing. Early in his career, he also worked on media and documentary projects with an NGO and as a copywriter at a communications agency before returning to journalism. Away from work, he sometimes makes time for a pair of binoculars, table tennis, cinema and the occasional poem.Read More

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