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“He was terminated immediately after the arrest,” said a senior officer of the commissionerate. KOLKATA: A young civic police volunteer employed with Bidhannagar Commissionerate was arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old niece for the past several months.Acting on a complaint lodged by the girl’s parents, Tutun Sarkar was arrested from his home at Dakshindari in Lake Town on Wednesday evening. He was produced before a Salt Lake court on Thursday and was remanded in police custody.Immediately after the arrest, cops said Sarkar was terminated from his position as a civic police volunteer. Police said, the girl’s father alleged that Sarkar used to call the minor girl to his room and sexually exploit her for several months before she told her mother about the sexual assaults on Wednesday and they immediately lodged a complaint with Lake Town police station.Cops charged Sarkar under section 376 ( rape ) of Indian Penal Code and section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012..