Eight months after complaint, police book accused for raping minor girl in shelter home

Ludhiana | Saturday | 15th September, 2018

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The statement of the survivor has also been recorded before a magistrate.” He said the matter was being investigated but the survivor had changed her statement during the probe that was being conducted by SP (headquarters) Kanwardeep Kaur. The girl involved is not the one who had escaped from the home and alleged sexual abuse.The survivor is another inmate, still living in theshelter, who had alleged sexual abuse a couple of years ago, but had retracted her statement. PATIALA: As a fallout of the incident of five inmates escaping from the SOS Children’s Home in Rajpura on Wednesday, the police late on Thursday night registered a case of rape against a 22-year-old man for allegedly raping a teenaged girl living in the home. Her case was cited by the 16-year-old who had managed to escape from the home two days ago.The police got medical examination of the survivor conducted on Friday and produced her before a magistrate to get her statement recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC..