A 50-year-old man was arrested on Sunday for raping his 18-year-old stepdaughter, police stated, including the lady’s mom, who was complicit within the crime, was additionally arrested.
The accused man’s elder sister has additionally been booked together with two different males with whom the minor lady was forcibly married to, police stated.
Based on police, the accused step aunt additionally accepted cash from the 2 “husbands” of the lady, with whom the alleged crime has been going down since October 2022.
In her assertion to police, the lady, who now lives together with her 4 siblings in Uttar Pradesh, stated that her mom introduced her to Mumbai in 2022 after she married the accused. The stepfather allegedly raped her in October 2022 at their residence. Later he would rape her repeatedly, and when he found the lady was pregnant, he gave her abortion drugs, police stated.
The lady additionally advised the police that after discovering out in regards to the abortion, her stepfather’s 65-year-old elder sister took her to Delhi, the place she forcibly married the lady to 2 males aged 55 years and 25 years. The lads raped the lady when she lived with them briefly, the grievance said.
The 2 “husbands” of the lady additionally knew she was a minor. The lady’s stepaunt additionally took cash from the 2 males, police stated.
“A couple of weeks in the past, the mom once more introduced her daughter to Mumbai, the place her stepfather once more raped her. When she went again to UP and took the assistance of a relative couple to file a police grievance. She then approached us on October 19,” stated a police officer.
Appearing on her grievance, police arrested her stepfather and mom on Sunday. “The accused mom was conscious of all atrocities dedicated on her minor daughter, however she selected to stay silent and assist her second husband,” the officer added.
“We’ve additionally booked the stepfather’s elder sister, and the lady’s two ‘husbands’ and can quickly arrest them,” one other officer stated.
The 5 accused have been charged below sections 71, 88, 89, 3(5) of Bharatiy Nyay Sanhita (BNS), 4, 6, 8, and 12 of the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and 9, 10, and 11 of the Prohibition of Little one Marriage Act.
The 2 arrested accused had been produced earlier than a particular POCSO courtroom that remanded them to 2–3 days of police custody. The opposite three accused are needed by the police.
The lady is present process numerous medical exams. Her assertion will quickly be recorded earlier than a Justice of the Peace, a provision mandated within the little one intercourse abuse circumstances, one other officer stated.