Stepfather, mother arrested over rape of minor girl; 3 others booked

According to police, the accused measurement aunt besides accepted wealth from the 2 “husbands” of the girl, with whom the alleged transgression has been taking spot since October 2022.

In her connection to police, the girl, who present lives with her 4 siblings successful Uttar Pradesh, said that her parent brought her to Mumbai successful 2022 aft she joined the accused. The stepfather allegedly raped her successful October 2022 astatine their home. Later helium would rape her repeatedly, and erstwhile helium discovered the miss was pregnant, helium gave her termination pills, constabulary said.

The miss besides told the constabulary that aft uncovering retired astir the abortion, her stepfather’s 65-year-old elder sister took her to Delhi, wherever she forcibly joined the miss to 2 men aged 55 years and 25 years. The men raped the miss erstwhile she lived with them briefly, the ailment stated.

The 2 “husbands” of the miss besides knew she was a minor. The girl’s stepaunt besides took wealth from the 2 men, constabulary said.

“A fewer weeks ago, the parent again brought her girl to Mumbai, wherever her stepfather again raped her. When she went backmost to UP and took the assistance of a comparative mates to record a constabulary complaint. She past approached america connected October 19,” said a constabulary officer.

Acting connected her complaint, constabulary arrested her stepfather and parent connected Sunday. “The accused parent was alert of each atrocities committed connected her insignificant daughter, but she chose to stay soundless and assistance her 2nd husband,” the serviceman added.

“We person besides booked the stepfather’s elder sister, and the girl’s 2 ‘husbands’ and volition soon apprehension them,” different serviceman said.

The 5 accused person been charged nether sections 71, 88, 89, 3(5) of Bharatiy Nyay Sanhita (BNS), 4, 6, 8, and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and 9, 10, and 11 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act.

The 2 arrested accused were produced earlier a peculiar POCSO tribunal that remanded them to 2–3 days of constabulary custody. The different 3 accused are wanted by the police.

The miss is undergoing assorted aesculapian tests. Her connection volition soon beryllium recorded earlier a magistrate, a proviso mandated successful the kid enactment maltreatment cases, different serviceman said.