A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped while her two minor brothers were forced into unnatural sex in Central Delhi’s Prasad Nagar area for the last 18 months by a private school taxi driver and his four associates, who filmed the gruesome incidents.
Not only this, the brothers have told the police that the driver, identified as Lalit Ratawal, 32, a resident of Bapa Nagar, Karol Bagh, used to drug them and allegedly forced them to indulge in immoral acts with their sister. The girl is a Class 7 student while her brothers, aged 7 and 10, are students of Classes 3 and 5, respectively.
The police said the incident came to light on Friday morning when a neighbour of the victims approached the Prasad Nagar police station and informed the cops about the ordeal of the children.
According to a senior police official, the accused had threatened the victims and their mother to keep mum or else the videos will be uploaded on a popular networking site.
After receiving the complaint, the police sent the victims to Lady Hardinge Hospital for medical tests. The main accused Lalit was arrested while his four associates have gone missing since the matter came to light.
The police has registered a case of rape after the girl’s examination confirmed sexual assault while the report of two other victims is awaited.
The police has impounded the Maruti Omni taxi of the accused.
The neighbours of the victims were aghast on coming to know about the incident and demanded action against the accused.
“I talked to the victim’s mother and tried to console her. The taxi driver had threatened to kill her children and had told her that he will upload the videos on Internet if she told anyone about it. The victims told me that Lalit used to take them to an unknown destination after picking them up from their home,” said Subash Nagar, a neighbour of the family.
The victims’ father had expired two years ago and the family had rented out six rooms of their residence for their financial needs.
“Lalit and his associates used to drug the victims and rape the girl while the two boys were sodomised. The children were forced by the accused to inhale drugs and consume sedatives. The victims’ mother learnt about the matter few weeks back when she found injection marks on her children’s hands. But she could not dare to inform the police because Lalit was threatening her,” Subash added.