Girl ends life after rape, accused absconding

  • | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

Raids are underway to arrest the accused who is absconding,” Inspector Rath Kotwali Manoj Kumar Shukla told TOI over phone. Kanpur: A day after being allegedly threatened and raped by a youth, a girl ended life on late Monday evening in a village under Rath Kotwali police jurisdiction in Hamirpur district. We are awaiting the postmortem report. A case under charges of rape and abetment to suicide besides POCSO Act has been registered against the accused who is absconding.Police said the girl (16), a class XI student, was alone when a local youth barged into her house and raped her.When her parents returned home, they found her body hanging from the ceiling of her room. They alerted the police, who brought the body down and shifted it to mortuary.The girl’s parents on Tuesday gave a complaint to the Rath Kotwali police, accusing a local youth, Mohit Rajput, of threatening and raping their minor daughter and abetting her to resort to take the extreme step.Subsequently, the police registered an FIR on the complaint of the girl’s parents.“An FIR under sections 376 (rape), 306 (abetment of suicide) of IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 has been lodged against the accused.

Kanpur: A day after being allegedly threatened and raped by a youth, a girl ended life on late Monday evening in a village under Rath Kotwali police jurisdiction in Hamirpur district. A case under charges of rape and abetment to suicide besides POCSO Act has been registered against the accused who is absconding.Police said the girl (16), a class XI student, was alone when a local youth barged into her house and raped her.When her parents returned home, they found her body hanging from the ceiling of her room. They alerted the police, who brought the body down and shifted it to mortuary.The girl’s parents on Tuesday gave a complaint to the Rath Kotwali police, accusing a local youth, Mohit Rajput, of threatening and raping their minor daughter and abetting her to resort to take the extreme step.Subsequently, the police registered an FIR on the complaint of the girl’s parents.“An FIR under sections 376 (rape), 306 (abetment of suicide) of IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 has been lodged against the accused. We are awaiting the postmortem report. Raids are underway to arrest the accused who is absconding,” Inspector Rath Kotwali Manoj Kumar Shukla told TOI over phone.

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