5-yr-old raped in Jamshedpur
JAMSHEDPUR: A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in Jamshedpur’s Chhota Govindpur locality when she went out of her home on Sunday morning.
A toilet is under the process of construction in the minor’s house. However, her family members usually defecated in the open as the under-construction toilet was not useable, sources said. The girl was rushed to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College Hospital after she complained of pain in her lower abdomen and private parts.
Officer-in-charge of Govindpur police station Rajiv Ranjan said the police were yet to get the medical reports. However, a first information report was lodged under sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and section 376 of the Indian Penal Code.
“The accused it yet to be identified. We have lodged an FIR and initiated our investigation,” the officer said.
Doctors said that the girl is out of danger.
Family members of the girl blamed the delay in construction of toilets. “Our daughter would have been safe today if the toilet construction work was completed on time. The district administration is responsible for the delay,” said the minor’s mother.
DESERTED INFANT FOUND IN THANE
An infant girl nearly one-yearold,was allegedly raped by an unidentified person in Thane, police said on Sunday.
A tempo driver, on hearing the wails of the child, spotted the infant lying abandoned in his vehicle in Mithapada area of Shelar village in Bhiwandi taluka on Saturday morning, police inspector Vilas Chowgule said.
He rushed the girl, injured in her private parts, to the Bhiwandi police station, Chowgule said, adding that it was suspected to be case of rape.
The police admitted the child to Bhiwandi’s IGM hospital where she is being treated and undergoing tests, he said.
Details of the baby’s parents were yet to be ascertained, he said. The police have registered offences against the unidentified person under IPC section 376 (rape) and relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the official said, adding that a search was on for the culprit.