INDORE: An eight-year-old girl was raped while her younger sister, 6, was sexually harassed by their elderly neighbour in Musakhedi area in Indore. A case was registered against the accused, who was later arrested by Azad Nagar police station on Monday early hours.
Police and family members rushed the survivors to MY Hospital where she is being treated.
As per survivor’s mother, she along with her two daughters and a year-old son, lives in rental house in Alok Nagar area while her husband lives in Mumbai where he is a labourer. Around a month ago, accused Raja Ram, 50, started living in a nearby room on rent.
“On Sunday late night, after my elder daughter returned from toilet, she complained about pain in her private parts. When I checked, it had got swollen. I asked her about it. She first got scared and then after sometime she informed me that from the last 15 days when she goes for loo, Raja Ram forcefully held her, took her to his room and allegedly raped her and then threatened her that if she revealed the incident to anyone, he would kill me,” the survivor's mother told TOI.
She added, when I came to know the incident, I called my husband, who asked me to call dial 100 and inform them.
Azad Nagar police station in charge Dilip Puri, said, “After we were informed, one team of police rushed the survivors to MY Hospital and other team arrested the accused.”
Since there was a younger sister of survivor, we had a suspicion whether she was also targeted or not. On questioning, the younger sister told us that accused used to touch her when she used to play in the locality with her friends on which we have registered a case of molestation and rape against the accused. Raja Ram will be produced in the court on Monday.