Jamshedpur: Minor rape accused sent to remand home

Jamshedpur, May 6. Police have arrested the minor accused of raping a woman on Thursday night in a toilet located near the bus stand under Sitaramdera police station.

The police sent the accused to the Child Improvement Home on Saturday after doing paperwork.

Earlier, on the statement of the victim, the police had registered an FIR against the accused. The victim had told the police that she had gone to bathe in the river with her two daughters. While returning, the youth of the township stopped her and started raping her. When she protested, he was beaten up and hit on the leg with a stone. Later, when she went to her house and complained, her family members did not say anything, after which she reached the police station to complain.

The accused had raped the victim’s six-year-old daughter in front of her eyes. She told that when the young man was misbehaving with his mother, she tried to stop him, but the young man threatened to kill him.