Man held for raping minor

SNS, Kurseong, 22 July: Kalimpong police arrested a 38-year-old man on charges of raping a mentally-retarded and physically challenged minor girl yesterday night.

According to police, the victim, a deaf and dumb  girl (12), was alone at her home when the incident occurred while her mother, a labourer, was working in a nearby field. 

The accused, a local, was drunk when he had entered the victim’s house. When the girl’s mother finally arrived in the afternoon she found the door locked from inside. She alleged that she found the accused without clothes in front of her daughter when she entered the house.

Police said the accused was in a drunken state when they reached the area around 7 p.m. and had to be admitted in the hospital when he fell down trying to escape.

He has been booked under Section 376 (2) (i) (l) and Section 4 of the Protection of children from sexual offense Act 2012.

The victim has been admitted to the Kalimpong Sub-divisional Hospital while the accused, a father of two children, was produced in Kalimpong court and has been sent to judicial custody. 
(Photo: Kalimpong News Express)

Mukesh Sharma, KNE, Kalimpong Police have arrested a 38 year old man on charges of raping a mentally retarded girl child.

According to police sources, the victim aged 12 a minor girl child resident of Dungra Chisopani could neither speak ,hear nor walk .'

The victim mother who works as a field labour has left the child in her house with door open as she was on the day working in the nearby field.

Taking advantages of situation the accused entered into the victim house and locked it from inside told the sources.

To her shock of her life when the mother upon reaching her home from the field in the afternoon found the door of the house locked .The mother of the victim alleged that the accused was found without clothes in front of the girl when she entered the house.

The accused police said was in a drunken state when they reached the area around 7 p.m. The accused has been admitted to the hospital after arrest as he had fallen down while trying to escape from the police.

He have been booked Under Section 376 (2)(i) (l) and Section 4 of the Protection of children from sexual offense Act 2012.

The victim has been admitted to Kalimpong Sub Divisional Hospital while the accused was forwarded today to the court after which he has been sent to 14 days of Judicial remand.