PATNA: Social scientists are alarmed at a shocking incident reported from Buxar district where a man was found raping his two minor daughters for years on the advice of a tantrik "to have a son".On Tuesday, a local POCSO court in Buxar district awarded life term to the accused father Binod Kumar Singh and tantrik Ajay Kumar while handing down 20-year imprisonment to the rape survivors mother and aunt, who instigated the accused persons for rape. The minor sisters were being sexually harassed for the past one decade until they reported the matter to the police which acted and registered the case."Such incident is quite disturbing and unless appropriate action is taken, it will destroy the pious social values," social scientist Prof Sachindra Narayan said on Thursday.Another social scientist Prof BN Prasad said such incidents will go on until patriarchal value system is sufficiently challenged by the women. "This (incident) is not gender discrimination; rather it is the outcome of existing patriarchal system, and until it is challenged by the women themselves, such things will continue," Prasad warned."The general beliefs are that daughters are paraya dhan (someone elses wealth) and deplete resources while sons are considered natural inheritors of fathers properties and also hold the special right to light the funeral pyres of their parents," Prasad observed.Police said the accused father, who had only two daughters, had consulted a local Tantrik to have a son in 2012 after which the latter advised him to "rape his own daughters". Luckily, the accused had a son later but the Tantrik expressed threats to boys life, and again advised him to rape her, reports said. Later, the Tanrik too began raping the girls.After mustering courage, the sisters fled from their home in May last year and reported the matter to the local police which swung into action and ordered a speedy trial in the case which ultimately landed all the accused persons in jail.(The victims identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Courts directives on cases related to sexual assault)

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