The police on Wednesday arrested a youth for sexually assaulting a minor girl for over a dozen times at a cyber café in the town. The case came to light on Wednesday.
Notably, this cyber café, situated on Hostel road of the town was in the limelight for long for conducting suspicious activities.
The police have, in the past conducted raids at this café twice and taken stern action against the café owner.
Kotwali police station in-charge NS Sengar told The Pioneer that on Wednesday morning, a 14-year-old girl approached the police station and narrated the whole incident of sexual harassment. She informed that she was first raped in the café by the offender Ravi Sankhla around six months ago.
later, threatening her of exposing the details of physical relationship, he would defame her, he continued to commit the crime. In past six months, she has been sexually assaulted for around two dozen times at the same place, she told police. The police registered a case under sections 376, 342
and 506 of the IPC and section 5/1 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012.
Police sources said that the café is known in the town only for the fact that couples use it as a meeting place.
Opium seized
The City police of the Neemuch district on Wednesday arrested a couple for smuggling 10 kg opium. City police station in-charge Shivpal Yadav informed that on a tip off, the police arrested Gendi Bai and her husband Sohanlal, when they were lurking suspiciously to sell the opium.
The police have registered a case under section 8/18 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.