Ludhiana, July 10 A Class IX boy has allegedly raped two minor girls, both sisters, in the Jodhewal area. According to information, the victims’ mother sent her seven-year-old daughter, who studies in UKG, to fill water in the cooler kept on the roof at around 9 pm. When she did not return for about 25 minutes, she asked her younger daughter, who is in LKG, to go and ask her sister to come down. But when her younger daughter reached the rooftop, she found that the boy was raping her elder sister. The boy caught hold of the younger daughter, and raped her as well. When their mother went upstairs, the accused threatened to kill them all. The accused is a resident of Kakowal Road. He is a tenant in the same building. the Jodhewal police have booked him for rape, criminal intimidation under Sections 376 and 506 of the IPC, apart from Section 8 of the POCSO Act. Sub-Inspector Gurpeet Singh from the Jodhewal police station said the accused had been arrested and sent to jail. The accused and the victims study in the same private school on the Jalandhar Bypass area.

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