15-year-old girl pulled into shanty, raped by juvenile

A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped in east Delhi’s Pandav Nagar with the accused in the case suspected to be a minor, police said on Saturday.

The accused, a resident of a slum cluster in Shashi Garden, has been apprehended by police, said a police officer.

Police said the incident was reported on Friday evening when the girl was returning from a grocery shop. On her way back, scared by a pack of stray dogs, she tried to hide behind some bushes near a temple when the accused pulled the girl inside his shanty, police said.

His dwelling was close to the spot where the girl was hiding, they added. It was alleged that the accused was following the girl and took advantage of the situation to drag her inside his shanty and force himself upon her, said the officer.

Her relatives approached police after she returned home and told her mother about her ordeal. She was subsequently taken for a medical examination, which confirmed rape, said the officer.

A case was registered under the Indain Penal Code and the POCSO Act and the accused was apprehended at his house immediately. Police said it was found that the accused is addicted to drugs and often created ruckus in his slum cluster.

5-yr-old girl molested

A senior official at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was arrested after the mother of a five-year-old girl alleged that he touched the child inappropriately at a cultural function in southeast Delhi’s Sunlight Colony area, police said on Saturday.

The incident was reported on Thursday evening when the official was among the spectators at a cultural function organised at a Durga Puja pandal near Vidyut Vihar locality.

While the official was sitting in the second row, the girl and her mother were sitting in the first, a police officer said.

“The girl started crying suddenly and when her mother asked her what had happened, she whispered something. The woman then turned back and alleged that the official had touched her daughter inappropriately,” he said.

The matter was reported to police and the official was later arrested under the POCSO Act, the police officer said.