Delhi shamed again by rape of 3 minors

Three minor girls, aged around four and five years, were raped by persons known to them in different parts of the city on Monday. All the accused have been arrested.

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 22-year-old neighbour in Shahbad area of west Delhi on Monday afternoon.

“A case under relevant Sections of IPC and POCSO Act has been registered at Shahbad Dairy police station and the accused has been arrested,” said a senior police officer.

The mother of the victim had dropped her at a neighbour’s place after picking her up from her school in the afternoon. While the woman had gone to bring back her younger daughter from a different school, the girl was taken away by the accused and raped, he said.

The accused, who lived in the same lane, was caught by the locals who were alarmed by the shrieks of the girl. He was beaten up and then handed over to the police.

The accused was a school dropout and a jobless local youth who was known to victim as she lived just two-three houses apart from him, said the officer.

In the second incident, a four-year-old girl was raped in west Delhi’s Ranhola area where her 30-year-old neighbour has been arrested by the police.

The police said that the minor girl and the accused lived in the same building. On Saturday evening, while mother of the girl was busy with a phone call, she went upstairs to the room of the accused. Later, her mother, alerted by the cries of her daughter, rushed to find her sexually assaulted by the accused, identified as 30-year-old Sanjay, who worked as a labourer.

The mother of the girl narrated the incident to her husband when he came back from his work in the night. He confronted the accused with other locals and they beat him up before calling the police.

A case under relevant Sections of the IPC and POCSO Act has been registered at Ranhola police station and the accused was arrested by the police.

In the third incident, a five-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by her 18-year-old cousin in Ghazipur area of east Delhi on Sunday, the police said.

The accused, who had visited the residence of his maternal aunt, had been caught while assaulting the girl and was handed over to the police.

A case was of rape and POCSO Act provisions was registered and accused was arrested, said a police officer.

DCW chief Swati Maliwal on Monday met one of the victims at a hospital where she was admitted.

“Just met 7 year old girl raped yesterday by 22 year old boy in Ghazipur. Has bled profusely. Delhi is shamelessly rape capital of the world,” she said in her tweet.

“Another 4 year old raped by 30 year old man. Another day. Another Nirbhaya. Has system changed Is anyone trying Is anyone listening , Ms Maliwal said in another tweet.