Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)

Father molested daughters for 2 yrs in Gurgaon, booked

- Leena Dhankhar leena.dhankhar@hindustant­imes.com

GURGAON: A 42-year-old man has been booked for allegedly sexually harassing, assaulting and threatenin­g his two daughters for life on Friday in Kanhai village. The incident took place on Thursday night while the daughters were asleep.

Father returned home drunk and molested the two. The girls raised the alarm and informed their mother. Thereafter, the father assaulted three of them and hit them with bricks. Even the father was injured in the incident and all were rushed to the hospital.

A case under sections 323 (assault), 345A (sexual harassment), 506 (threatenin­g for life) and 10 (punishment for sexual assault) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered at Sector 40 police station on Friday.

The man was arrested on Saturday evening after he was discharged from civil hospital, said police.

The 18-year-old victim has alleged in her complaint that her father often molested her and her 15-year-old sister and forced them to watch porn movies when he returned home in an inebriated condition.

“We are unsafe in our own house. My father returns home in the evening and forces us to watch porn movies. He undresses in front of us and forces us to indulge in oral acts. When we resist his advances, he beats us up,” said the victim.

“My father has been torturing us for the last two years and whenever we complained to our mother, he assaulted and threatened us all. He touches us inappropri­ately every day and slaps us when we resist,” said the younger daughter.

The daughters have alleged in their complaint that the father molested them repeatedly. It was on Friday that they decided to take the matter to the police. “We have got the victims’ medical examinatio­n done. They are injured and undergoing treatment.

The statements were recorded by the duty magistrate under Section 164 of CRPC on Saturday and the man will be produced before the court on Monday,” said Poonam Hooda, SHO of women police station.

18YEAROLD VICTIM HAS ALLEGED IN HER COMPLAINT THAT HER FATHER OFTEN MOLESTED HER AND HER 15YEAROLD SISTER

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