Guwahati, Mar 7: Cachar police arrested a 26-year-old man on Friday for allegedly raping a four-and-half-year-old girl from the same neighborhood.
The accused was arrested from Assam’s Cachar district following a filing of FIR by the victim’s family members.
The alleged incident happened on March 4 and the family members lodged a complaint at the concerned police station on March 6.
“The accused was known to us and he entered our house at around 5pm on March 4 in the absence of the senior members of our family. The girl was playing alone when he lured her by promising to buy chocolate from a shop and took her to his house. When she didn’t return for a long time, we started searching and found her near a tea garden at around 7pm,” the victim’s father said.
He said, “My daughter told me that the accused had first taken her to his house and behaved improperly with her. Later, he took her to the tea plantation area where he raped her by gagging her”.
A case under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and Bharatiya Nyay Sanghita (BNS) was registered at Cachar police station.
“The case was registered under 137(2) (kidnapping), 65(2) (raping girl under 12 years of age) BNS and section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of POCSO Act. We are investigating the case,” said a senior police official.
The statement of the rape-survivor has been recorded and has undergone mandatory medical examinations.
