<p>The daughter of suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha, who was arrested in the case of alleged sexual assault of a minor girl, Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the case.</p>.<p> The plea came up for hearing before Justice Saurabh Banerjee who listed it for an in-camera proceeding on Thursday.</p>.<p> Khakha's 19-year-old daughter approached the high court after dismissal of her anticipatory bail plea by a trial court here on September 22.</p>.Rape accused Delhi officer Premoday Khakha sent to 1-day judicial custody.<p> According to the prosecution, his daughter is accused of abetment to the crime.</p>.<p> The suspended officer, who allegedly raped the girl several times and impregnated her, was arrested by the police on August 21 and is in judicial custody.</p>.<p> His wife Seema Rani, who is accused of giving the girl medicine to terminate her pregnancy, is also in judicial custody.</p>.<p> Khakha had allegedly raped the minor several times between November 2020 and January 2021. The minor was the daughter of a person known to the accused, police had said.</p>.<p> The couple was arrested after the victim recorded her statement before a magistrate at a hospital.</p>.<p> A case has been registered under provisions of the POCSO Act and Indian Penal Code sections 376(2)(f) (being a relative, guardian or teacher of, or a person in a position of trust or authority towards the woman, commits rape on such woman) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to outrage the modesty of a woman), police said.</p>.<p> IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 313 (causing miscarriage without woman's consent) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) have also been invoked in the case, police said. </p>
<p>The daughter of suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha, who was arrested in the case of alleged sexual assault of a minor girl, Wednesday approached the Delhi High Court seeking anticipatory bail in the case.</p>.<p> The plea came up for hearing before Justice Saurabh Banerjee who listed it for an in-camera proceeding on Thursday.</p>.<p> Khakha's 19-year-old daughter approached the high court after dismissal of her anticipatory bail plea by a trial court here on September 22.</p>.Rape accused Delhi officer Premoday Khakha sent to 1-day judicial custody.<p> According to the prosecution, his daughter is accused of abetment to the crime.</p>.<p> The suspended officer, who allegedly raped the girl several times and impregnated her, was arrested by the police on August 21 and is in judicial custody.</p>.<p> His wife Seema Rani, who is accused of giving the girl medicine to terminate her pregnancy, is also in judicial custody.</p>.<p> Khakha had allegedly raped the minor several times between November 2020 and January 2021. The minor was the daughter of a person known to the accused, police had said.</p>.<p> The couple was arrested after the victim recorded her statement before a magistrate at a hospital.</p>.<p> A case has been registered under provisions of the POCSO Act and Indian Penal Code sections 376(2)(f) (being a relative, guardian or teacher of, or a person in a position of trust or authority towards the woman, commits rape on such woman) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to outrage the modesty of a woman), police said.</p>.<p> IPC sections 506 (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 313 (causing miscarriage without woman's consent) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) have also been invoked in the case, police said. </p>