47-year-old arrested for raping 11-year-old girl | News from Mumbai

MUMBAI: Bangur Nagar police have arrested a 47-year-old daily wage labourer for allegedly raping his neighbour’s 11-year-old daughter for 10 days.

The police arrested the defendant within 30 minutes after her mother filed a complaint.

According to police, the accused, who visited the girl at home every day, had raped the girl when her parents went to work. The accused had threatened the girl with dire consequences if she told her parents.

The girl stayed home alone when her parents went to work. When the girl’s parents returned home after work on Saturday, the girl complained of stomach pain. When asked what the problem was, she told them about the physical and sexual assault by her father’s friend.

The girl’s mother, along with social activists, approached the police, who filed charges against the accused under Section 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

“We arrested the accused within 30 minutes of registering the FIR and produced him before the court on Sunday where he was remanded in police custody,” a police official said.

The police are now investigating whether the accused sexually abused other girls.