Bareli police have registered two cases of rape of minor girls, one of them only over four years old while the other 15-year-old who was gang raped.
The incidents follow an alleged gang-rape of an eight-year-old girl at Mandsaur last month, which led to outrage across Madhya Pradesh.
The police nabbed a 26-year-old man was arrested for sexually assaulting a four-and-a-half years old girl who lived in his neighbourhood in Bareli town. Providing information Bareli police station in-charge SS Mukati said that the accused took the girl with him on the pretext of Rs Kanya Bhoj' on June 28 and sexually assaulted her and threatened her not to report the incident to anyone. later when he went to the girl's house again two days ago on the pretext of taking her for another Kanya Bhoj, the girl refused and started crying and narrated the ordeal.
The parents of the victim approached the Superintendent of Police who instructed to register a case. During the investigation the accused was arrested at Bareli bus stand last evening when he was trying to escape the city.
Police have started investigation in the case while the identity of the accused not disclosed yet. Meanwhile in the second incident, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted by two miscreants on July 3.
The accused, identified as Sanjay Singh Dhakad and Akash Singh Dhakad went absconding and are still at large. Search for the accused has been intensified.
After the preliminary investigation in both cases, police have registered case under section 376 of the IPC and relevant charges under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Earlier on June 26, an eight-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by two men when she was waiting for her father outside her school. The incident sent shock waves through the state. Police arrested both the accused in the case.