Nashik: An 18-year-old adivasi girl has accused an orphanage’s female director’s son of raping her at the facility for the past one year with the active complicity of his mother.
The police registered a case Tuesday night and arrested the alleged rapist Atul (25) and his mother (45). On Wednesday, the duo was remanded to police custody till July 24.
The survivor was inducted into the orphanage in 2013 when she was 15 years’ old. She was 17 when Atul allegedly began raping her and continued to do so till she turned 18.
As young adults are not allowed to remain in the orphanage, she was sent to the government remand home in Nashik city on July 12.
At the remand home, the girl would constantly weep and so, the superintendent S.D. Gangurde questioned her. When she narrated her ordeal, Gangurde directed the NZAMHS to send her birth certificate.
The orphanage’s director and Atul’s mother allegedly warned that she would commit suicide and nail all the officers in her suicide note.
Finally, a case was registered Tuesday against the accused under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act at Mumbai Naka police station in Nashik city, and then transferred to Peth police station.
The survivor complained that Atul first raped her during Diwali of 2015 after which, she told his mother about it who allegedly warned the girl that she was trying to trap her son
and threatened to throw her out of the orphanage.
