16-YEAR-OLD GIRL RAPED IN NETAJI SUBHASH PLACE AREA

nNEW DELHI: A 16-year-old girl was raped and attacked by a man in northwest Delhi’s Netaji Subhash Place on Wednesday, a day after another 12-year-old had been sexually violated and brutally attacked in Paschim Vihar.

Police said they had arrested a 24-year-old suspect from northwest Delhi after three days.

The man, police claimed, had taken the victim to a private hospital after the crime, got her admitted there and fled.

The girl is out of danger, police said on Sunday.

Investigators said the suspect is a driver and lives in the same neighbourhood where the girl lives with her parents. He had befriended the girl on a social networking site. The girl in her statement has told the police that she knew him for the past one month.

On Wednesday morning, the officer said, the suspect called the girl and told her he wanted to meet, but she refused.

Around 2pm, the suspect then went to her home and managed to convince her to come to his house on the pretext of discussing something with her.

“At his home, he pushed her and raped her. When the girl sustained injuries and started bleeding, he panicked and took her to a private hospital, where the girl informed her mother on phone. The suspect fled, even as the girl’s mother reached the hospital,” the officer, quoting her statement, said.

The girl’s mother later informed her husband and they shifted their daughter to a government hospital, where she underwent a surgery.