Uttar Pradesh: 5 year old girl raped, Dalit boy sodomised by cop

Despite the nation-wide rage and agitation over the rising incidents of crime against women, the cases of rape remain unabated in Uttar Pradesh

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Three days after the Unnao rape victim died, the UP police on Wednesday have registered an FIR against a 14-year old boy who allegedly raped a five-year-old girl in Uttar Pradesh's Hamirpur district.

The incident took place at a village in Muskara area on Tuesday night. The 14-year-old boy took the girl, who was playing outside her house, to a secluded place and raped her, Additional Superintendent of Police, Santosh Kumar said.

An FIR has been registered in this regard on the complaint of the girl's family members and the accused has been detained, he said.

The matter is being probed. The victim has been admitted to the hospital for treatment and her medical report is awaited.

Meanwhile, in another town of Uttar Pradesh, Kasganj, a head constable has been booked for sodomizing a 13-year-old Dalit boy here over the weekend.

According to the police, the incident took place on December 6 when the boy had accompanied his father to Sikandarpur Vaishya police station in connection with a land dispute case.

The accused, identified as Tribhuwan Singh, 55, allegedly took the boy to his rented accommodation on the pretext of treating him to lunch at a nearby eatery and sodomized him.


Kasganj superintendent of Police Sushil Ghule said that the head constable has been suspended.

"Prima facie the allegations are true. The boy has, in his statement, said that the accused constable took him to his house, asked him to remove his clothes and sodomized him," Ghule said.

"The boy later ran away to the police station where his father was recording statement. Though the accused has no criminal record during his service, I have removed him from the station to ensure impartial inquiry."

After the victim's father lodged the complaint, the police registered a case against Singh under several IPC sections for unnatural offences and punishment for assault or criminal force, besides relevant sections of POCSO and SC/ST Acts.


With input from agencies

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