56-year-old man held for raping teen daughter

Pune | Thursday | 10th January, 2019

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PUNE: The Dattawadi police on Tuesday arrested a man for repeatedly raping his 15-year-old daughter over the past year. The teenaged girl has lodged a complaint against her father.An officer from the Dattawadi police said that the complainant, her mother and sister live in the Dattawadi area. The incident came to light earlier this month when the girl’s mother found that her daughter was six months pregnant.The suspect (56) has been arrested under sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Her father, who is separated from them, lives on Sinhagad Road. “The suspect would visit the girl’s house and, after finding her alone, he used to rape her,” the officer said.As per the complaint, the suspect threatened that he would kill her mother and sister if she revealed anything to her mother..