Man rapes minor, kills baby born after assault
GORAKHPUR: A man accused of raping a 16-year-old girl, forcing her to conceal her pregnancy and then killing the baby girl born out of the assault, allegedly in connivance with the survivor’s mother, surrendered before a local court on Wednesday, police said.
The survivor, a resident of Gorakhpur’s Pipiganj locality, worked at the residence of the accused as a maid.
The accused was on the run since January 30 when locals found the body of a newborn in the bushes. The minor survivor later confessed to the police that she had given birth to the baby girl only to kill her as per the
wishes of the accused.
The accused was booked under Sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120 day,” said Campierganj Station House Officer, Nirbhay Narayan Singh.
The minor rape survivor has also been booked under Sections 302 (murder), 201(disappearance of evidence of offence) and 215 (taking gift to help recover stolen property) of the IPC.
“She has been sent to a shelter home and her statement will be recorded before the magistrate on Thursday. Her mother, who tried to cover up the matter and assisted her in dumping the body, has also been booked,” said SHO Singh.
“We have preserved the viscera of the newborn and forensic tests will be carried out to ascertain whether her DNA matches that of her alleged biological father,” he added.
The senior Abdullah is angry and hurt at being detained and painted as an anti-national when he has openly and publicly raised slogans of “Bharat Mata ki Jai”. He has, in fact, often said that he was “a soldier of the country, not an enemy of the nation”, the person said.
New Delhi has been trying to restart political activity in the new Union Territory and has silently backed former ministers Altaf Bukhari and Muzaffar Baig to announce the formation of a new party. HT reported a chance meeting between Bukhari and the BJP general secretary Ram Madhav in Gulmarg last week.
The government does not seem to be clear on how to move ahead and break the security logjam and, as the second official quoted above said, “They are trying various options. Letting Dulat meet Farooq was one such experiment. Keeping leaders locked up under PSA is not a long-term possibility. Many foreign envoys who visited the UT have (also) asked for their release.” Since January, two groups of foreign envoys, 40 in total, have visited the Valley.
The relationship between Dulat and Abdullah is an old one, and this is the third time that the former intelligence official has been chosen to meet the former chief minister and “calm him down”. In 1989, Abdullah was the chief minister when Rubaiya Saeed, daughter of then home minister Mufti Mohammad Saeed, was kidnapped and released in exchange for five militants. Dulat, then an Intelligence Bureau official posted in Srinagar, was by the side of an angry Abdullah, who did not want the militants released.