Bhopal

16-year-old minor girl raped on promise of marriage

Staff Reporter

A 16-year-old minor girl was sexually assaulted by a youth on the pretext of marrying her at Naveen Nagar. Aishbagh police has registered a case against the accused.

According to the police, the accused, Ashok Shajalkar, was booked for threatening and sexually assaulting the victim.

The accused used to live in victim’s neighbourhood in the past where he came into contact with the victim. The accused currently lives in Naveen Nagar area of Aishbagh.

In her complaint, the girl stated that she met the accused in the month of January last year and later became friends. The accused offered to marry her and developed physical relationship and after this, the accused sexually exploited her on several occasions. Few days ago, when the girl asked him to marry her, the suspect refused to marry and threatened her of life.

Police said that the victim claimed that the accused raped her on multiple occasions on the promise to marry her and for the past few days, he was threatening to kill the victim whenever she had asked to marry her.

Based on the complaint and after the preliminary investigation, the police have registered against the youth under sections 506 and 376 (2)(N) of the IPC and relevant sections of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and search has been intensified to nab the absconding accused.

The detail of the accused is yet to found.

The victim feared of life and never reported the incident and later reported the incident to police.