Sukhi Sewania police have booked a farmer of Bairagarh Kalan who had sexually assaulted a 23-year-old married woman at his farms on June 2; a case was registered on Friday.
Police said that the victim used to work at accused farmer Gittu Seth’s farm in Bairagarh Kalan where she was sexually assaulted on June 2.
The accused went to the victim’s house when she was alone and sexually assaulted her, later when her husband came she reported the incident. The couple lodged a complaint with Gairatganj police in Raisen where a case zero FIR and transferred the case to Sukhisewania police.
After the case was transferred case was registered and further investigation has been started.
The victim and her husband hailed from Gairatganj and after the incident they returned home and lodged a complaint with the police there as they feared that the accused could harm them if they would lodge complaint in police station in the state capital.
The police have registered a case under sections 342, 376 and 506 of the IPC and sections 3, 2 and 5 of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act have started further investigation.
Meanwhile, a 25-year-old step father was nabbed for sexually assaulting his daughter at Pipalia Pende Khan under Bagh Sewania police station area on Friday.
Police said that the victim came to meet her mother who left her family at Allahabad and married the accused Pradeep Kumar four years ago.
The victim came to the city on May 1 and for the past two weeks she was sexually assaulted by the accused father.
A complaint was lodged with the police after the victim reported the atrocity to her mother.
The police registered a case under section 376 of the IPC and section 5(N) and 6 of the POCSO Act and nabbed the accused.