A 32-year-old woman was raped, beaten and forced to undergo abortion by a man she befriended at her workplace in Gorakhpur.
The accused also exerted pressure on the victim to convert to Islam in order to get married to him.
The woman was working in an orchestra to support her three-year-old daughter. There she met the accused, Khurshid Hashmi, who befriended her and then raped her. The accused continued to physically abuse her and even forced her to undergo an abortion when she became pregnant. Khurshid Hashmi also forced the victim to convert to Islam if she wanted to get married to him. Meanwhile, Khurshid got married to someone else and threw the victim out of the house after beating her.
A complaint was filed by the woman and the accused was arrested.
Rajghat’s station house officer said that during investigation, the woman revealed details about her previous marriage, in which she was married under false pretenses due to caste differences.
In another incident, a 28-year-old home guard in Hathras was arrested for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old girl at a tea stall owned by her father on Tuesday afternoon.
A local court sent the home guard to jail on Wednesday.
The police identified the accused as Dinesh Kumar Sharma, who was posted at the One Stop Centre on Hathras-Aligarh link road. Sharma was assaulted by the girl, her family members and other locals and a video of the incident later went viral on social media.
The police said that Sharma visited the tea stall on Tuesday afternoon when the minor was managing it as her father and brother had gone to the market.
As per the FIR, Sharma tried to molest the girl and when she cried for help, the locals rushed to the spot. Meanwhile, her father and brother also reached the spot. Later, Sharma was taken to the local police station by the angry crowd and the girl’s father lodged a first information report (FIR).
“We have registered the FIR under Indian Penal Code sections 354 (punishment for molestation), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and also the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. We have arrested Dinesh Kumar Sharma. He was produced in the local court and sent to jail,” the police officer in-charge of the jurisdictional police station said.
Meanwhile, a seven-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by a labourer at a village in the New Mandi area of Muzaffarnagar, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place on Tuesday evening, New Mandi Station House Officer Santosh Kumar Tyagi said and added that a 26-year-old man had been arrested. The victim was the son of a brick kiln worker and the accused also worked there, police said.
Tyagi said a case had been registered against the accused under Indian Penal Code Section 377 (sodomy) and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The boy was sent for medical examination.