Delhi:
Close on the heels of an eight-year-old boy being allegedly sodomised by a doctor at AIIMS, another shocking case of sexual abuse of a minor has surfaced in the Capital.
An 11-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by her two neighbours for a month in Patel Nagar. The girl is a class IV student of a government school in the same area.
The accused Mohammad Umar (20) and Anil Kumar (45) were arrested on Monday after the victim's uncle approached police with a complaint, a senior police official said. "Anil allegedly raped her several times in the past one month while Umar sexually assaulted her once," the official said adding the incident came to light when the victim told her sister who in turn told her uncle. "Umar got to know about Kumar sexually assaulting the girl.
Then he allegedly blackmailed Kumar who later helped him to target her," the official said. The duo were produced in a court and sent to Tihar jail. A case under Sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) of IPC has been registered.
In 2010, the city witnessed 489 rape incidents, including the Dhaula Kuan and Mongolpuri rape, as against 459 in 2009. The figures for 2006 was 609 followed by a drop to 581 next year while in 2008 it further dipped to 466.
Almost similar was the case with molestation cases in the capital in these years but it showed an increase to 585 in 2010 from previous year's 532. While 2008 had 597 cases, there were 835 incidents in 2007 and 713 in 609.