It seems that paedophiles are on the prowl in the city as three girls have fallen prey to them in the last 24 hours.
In the first incident, a 13-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and gangraped by four persons in Shahdara's Gandhi Nagar area. The assault took place at an isolated spot which is just 300 metres away from the police station. After the girl failed to return home late on Friday night, her parents approached the police station where the officers on duty refused to entertain their complaint.
The badly bruised and bleeding girl somehow managed to return home on Saturday morning and narrated her ordeal to her parents. Her parents made a call to the Police Control Room (PCR) and an FIR was registered at the Gandhi Nagar Police Station.
The girl has been hospitalised and is being counseled.
This is the second incident of rape in the jurisdiction of the Gandhi Nagar Police Station within a span of 24 hours.
On Saturday afternoon, a five-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by the peon of her school. later in the day, the accused, 40-year-old Vikas was arrested.
In yet another incident, police arrested an elderly man for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old girl in East Delhi's Madhu Vihar area on Saturday.
A senior police officer of the East district said that the girl had gone to buy chocolate from a nearby shop.
The accused, 60-year-old Om Prakash, a resident of Chander Vihar area asked the minor to show him her private parts and partially disrobed her. He also tried to flash his privates, but the minor raised an alarm, following which the locals caught hold of the man and handed him over to the police.
DCP East, Omvir Bishnoi said, “A case under relevant sections of the POCSO Act has been registered at the Madhu Vihar Police Station against the man. He has been arrested and sent to judicial custody.” Police said that Section 354 of the IPC has been added.
In the Gandhi Nagar gangrape case, a senior police investigator said that the crime was reported on Saturday night and it happened 300 metres away from the police station.
As per the written complaint of the minor, she was asked by her mother to go and buy groceries from a nearby shop. A student of seventh grade, she lives with her family in the Gandhi Nagar area. Her father works as an electrician. The family hails from Uttar Pradesh.
"En route to the shop, she was kidnapped by four men who took her to an isolated spot. The accused offered her food laced with sedative and she fell unconscious. She woke up to find herself bleeding from her private parts. Badly injured, the girl mustered up courage to return home on Saturday morning.
The girl returned home at 5 am on Saturday. Based on her medical examination, police registered a case under relevant sections of kidnapping, POCSO Act at the Gandhi Nagar Police Station.
Police on Sunday said that they have detained three persons in the case. Out of the three accused, one is a juvenile while the other two are above 18 years of age.
Meanwhile, the Delhi Government has ordered a Magisterial inquiry into the rape of the five-year-old girl in a Shahdara school.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Sunday said that a protocol would be chalked out for all city schools to ensure the safety of students. SDM Vivek Vihar has been asked to conduct the inquiry and submit the report in three days.
The incident comes close on the heels of the gruesome killing of a seven-year-old boy who had his throat slit for allegedly resisting sexual assault by a bus conductor of a Gurgaon school - an incident which sent shock waves across the country.
Kejriwal said such incidents won't be tolerated. "Shameful. Won't be tolerated. Police doing its job. Ordered magsterial enquiry. Will develop protocol 4 all schools 2 ensure children safety (sic)," he tweeted.