Mahakalapada police on Monday nabbed one Rabindra Mandal, a resident of Baulakani village, on the charges of raping his own niece and making her unwed mother six years back.
Mahakalapada police station IIC Biranchi Bag said the crime took place in 2010. He informed that after the death of the victim’s father, her widow mother allegedly entrusted her brother-in-law to taking care of the girl. As a result, the girl had been staying in her uncle Rabindra Mandal’s house. later, Mandal forcibly raped her several times making her pregnant when the girl was just 17 years’ old. The victim girl later brought the matter to the notice of her mother.
As a result, the victim’s mother informed the matter to the village panchayat by inviting a meeting in the village at that time. In the meeting, the village heads asked the ill fated girl’s uncle to provide Rs 1 lakh to the victim. But Mandal forced the girl to terminate her pregnancy. Upon denying, he threatened the girl and her mother of dire consequence.
On April 30, 2010, the girl’s mother brought the matter before the notice of the IIC of Mahakalapada police station by lodging an FIR against Mandal. Police registered a case. But police failed to nab the accused as the latter fled the village in 2010.
On May 25, 2010, the victim girl gave birth to a male child at the Mahakalapada CHC. Meanwhile, the victim is staying with her six years old son at her parent’s house.
Mahakalapada police on Monday nabbed Mandal, while he recently returned from West Bengal’s Kanthi to Baulakani village. The police on Monday decided to conduct the DNA test to ascertain the real father of the child. If the paternity test comes positive for Mandal, he will arrested, stated the IIC.