Lifeguard ‘rapes’ nursery kid, held

NOIDA:Police have arrested a man who worked as a lifeguard at the swimming pool of a reputed private school in Greater Noida on Saturday for the alleged rape of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl on the school’s premises.

Chandi Das, 42, a native of Burdwan in West Bengal, was arrested by Surajpur police on Saturday after the girl’s parents lodged a complaint alleging that he committed the crime on Thursday morning.

The victim told her parents about the incident after she felt pain in her abdomen and her private parts while attending to nature’s call. “Our daughter complained of severe body pain after arriving from school on Thursday afternoon. We took her to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital in Delhi for a medico-legal test. The test indicated an issue which she suffered on her body. We took her next day to the school where she pointed out to Chandi Das and started crying,” the girl’s father said in his complaint.

“Other staff of the school also told us that the lifeguard had done some bad things to our daughter on Thursday,” the complaint said. The girl, who was enrolled in the nursery class this year, lives with her parents in a residential pocket of Greater Noida. Her father works as a general manager in a private company and her mother is a teacher in another Greater Noida-based school).

The police said that they had a medical test done on the girl that found signs of force having been applied on her private parts.