A 25-year-old man in Lucknow allegedly sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl after he kidnapped her from a wedding in a nearby village on Thursday night.
As per the police, the girl is now undergoing treatment at a hospital in Lucknow. The accused man is yet to be arrested by the police as he had fled from the crime. The police was informed when the girl had disappeared from the wedding on Thursday. The police got a call at the UP 112 emergency number on the night of the incident. After looking in the nearby area, the police found the girl in the vicinity, the Deputy Chief of Police of central Lucknow, Khyati Garg said.
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During questioning the girl revealed about a man who had allegedly sexually assaulted her after putting a tape on her mouth. The police reportedly pulled up CCTV cameras' footages installed banquet hall where the girl had gone to attend the wedding function with her family members. It was revealed that a man took the girl along with him to some other place.
“The identity of the accused has been ascertained and he is a resident of a nearby village. Efforts are on to arrest him after registering an FIR on charges of rape and under Pocso Act,” Garg added.
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A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly kidnapped from Mathura and attempts were made to sell her for prostitution in Delhi recently, according to reports. When she resisted the forced prostitution, she was allegedly raped multiple times by a man. An FIR in the case was registered last week and an investigation is currently on.
The girl’s mother, who approached the police, said she was rescued from a petrol pump in the national capital some days ago, according to The Times of India. She claims the teen alleged the man in question had planned to sell her to a brothel for lakhs of rupees.
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