A 22-year-old youth was arrested for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl for the past seven months at Shyam Nagar under Habibganj police station area on Saturday.
According to the police, the 16-year-old victim was sexually assaulted by her neighbour Brijesh Dubey last year in the month of October and continued with the atrocity on frequent basis with the victim.
The matter surfaced after victim’s mother found victim’s abdomen bump and asked her about it and victim reported the whole incident to her mother. The victim was found two month pregnant and later a complaint was lodged by the victim with the Habibganj police.
The victim in her complaint claimed that the she was raped on October 1 last year when she was alone at her house.
later, by threatening the victim, the offender continued sexually assaulting her.
The accused has been sexually assaulting her for the past seven months, claimed the victim.
Based on the complaint after the preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 376 of the IPC, section 3 and 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act-2012 and have started further investigation.
The investigating Officer ASI Vandana Dubey said that the accused was nabbed after the complaint was made by the victim. The accused works as a labour and after he was arrested he was produced in the court and was sent under judicial custody.
Details of the accused would be searched and past criminal record of the accused would be investigated said the police.