Teen raped by father for over a year
A 55-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his 15-year-old daughter in Kanjhawala area of Outer Delhi.
A senior police official said the accused, identified as Janki, was arrested and sent to 14 days judicial custody by a court.
“Janki lives with his daughter. He is having a marital tiff with his wife who has been living separately for over a year. On Wednesday, the police got a call that a man raped his daughter. The police reached the spot and found the 15-year-old victim with her mother. She was rushed to nearby government hospital where rape was established in her medical examination,” said the police official.
The victim said in her statement that her father had been raping her for over a year.
The teen victim’s mother used to come to meet her every month but she did not reveal her ordeal to her all along as her father had threatened her of dire consequences, the official further added.
“On Wednesday, when her mother came to meet her, she told her about her agony and the pain she had been suffering,” the police official said.
The senior police official further said that an FIR under Section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and other sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 was lodged against the accused Janki, the father of the teenage victim,” said the police official.
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