Youth held for raping 17-year-old Dalit girl in Pilibhit
POSTED ON JULY 9, 2023
Pilibhit: The police on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old youth of a village under the jurisdiction of Pilibhit Kotwali police station for allegedly raping a 17-year-old Dalit girl living in his neighbourhood.
According to the complaint filed by her father, a marginal farmer, the accused grabbed the minor girl around 9pm on Friday when she was out to fetch water from a village hand pump installed outside his house.
He gagged the girl, forcibly dragged her to his house and raped her, her father alleged.
Later, the girl managed to reach home and narrated her ordeal to her mother who informed the cops.
SHO Naresh Kumar said, “The accused works at a wine shop run by his elder brother. Based on the complaint, he was booked under IPC sections 376 (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), and appropriate sections of SC/ST Act and the Pocso Act.” “The girl has been sent for a medical examination and a probe is on,” the SHO added. Keshav Agarwal
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