Ahmedabad: Man who allegedly tried to molest two minor girls arrested by Danilimda police

AHMEDABAD:

Mohammed Rafik Rangrej

, 30, who attempted to rape a 6-year-old girl and molested another minor girl, a year older, in Danilimda late on Friday night was arrested on Sunday. According to police sources, the girls’ cry drew some residents, but at that time Rangrej managed to escape.


Fortunately, Rangrej was caught on the

CCTV camera

of a nearby shop. Police sources said that the accused had been earlier arrested for rape and was convicted in the case for seven years of imprisonment but had come out of the jail on a 15-day parole due to death of his father. "He has also been arrested for committing burglary by Isanpur police", added a police source.

Inspector of

Danilimda police

station

MM Laliwala

said an offence was registered under the Indian Penal Code’s Sections 376 (sexual assault) and 354 (outraging a woman’s modesty). Sections of the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act were also n invoked against the accused.

"On Friday night, the girls- who were friends, were playing outdoors when Rangrej approached them,” said a police source. “The accused promised them to give toys and chocolates and took them about half a kilometre away into the external toilet of an empty house.

Police sources said when the accused attempted to sexually assault the girls, they started screaming for help and he accused fled from the spot.

Inspector Laliwala said that through the CCTV footage and human intelligence they came to know that a man named Ranrej was involved in the gruesome crime and he lives at Millatnagar in Isanpur.

"We immediately dispatched a team and held Ranrej. We have arrested him after his Covid-19 test came negative” said inspector Laliwala.