Delhi: Neighbour Takes 4-Year-Old Girl Out For Stroll On Pretext Of Buying Candies, Rapes Her

In a horrendous incident, a four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 22-year-old man in Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy area, the police said on Thursday.

According to the police, the incident took place on Wednesday at around 3pm when the accused took the minor girl with himself on the pretext of giving her candies and chocolates and committed the crime. Later the accused left the girl near her house in the evening. The victim then shared the ordeal with her family, after which they informed the police.

The police said that a call regarding the sexual assault was received on Wednesday evening. The victim’s father told the police that his four-year-old daughter was lured by the accused man, who lives in their neighbourhood, and then later returned at around 6 pm.

The police immediately took the victim to BSA hospital where she was examined and provided medical assistance. The victim was then counselled by a team of counsellors.

The police filed an FIR under section 137(2) of the BNS and 6/18 POCSO Act and 3(2)(va) SC/ST(POA) Act. Multiple teams were formed and several raids were conducted at several locations and the accused was apprehended on Thursday, the police said.

After the incident, some angry residents tried to torch the residence of the accused, an officer said, adding the police brought the situation under control.

Earlier, two four-year-old girls were sexually abused by a male attendant in a washroom at a local school in Maharashtra’s Badlapur town. The FIR in the case was lodged on August 16 and the accused, who was working as a cleaner on contract via a third-party company, was arrested on August 17 after the girls’ parents pressed for a formal complaint despite an initial delay in filing the FIR. A local court on Wednesday extended his police custody till August 26.

The incident came amid the ongoing protests and outrage in the wake of the gruesome rape and murder of a trainee doctor in RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata. The horrendous crime has shaken the country with the nationwide protests demanding speedy justice.

(With inputs from PTI)