Bhind:
A nine-year-old woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped in entrance of her minor brother by a person identified to her household, within the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh, whereas the siblings have been returning residence from faculty.
The incident occurred on Tuesday within the Mehgaon police station space, with the accused being arrested.
The survivor, a pupil of Class 4, was returning residence together with her elder brother, a Class 6 pupil. Throughout this time, the accused, 21, stopped them and provided a experience residence on his motorbike. However as a substitute of dropping them to their residence, he took them to a desolate location the place he raped the woman in entrance of her brother, who was compelled to look at the crime.
When the boy, 11, protested and tried to intervene, the accused assaulted him too. He then left the siblings and fled the scene.
By this time, the survivor was unconscious. Seeing this, the boy shortly ran residence to alert the household. Relations discovered the woman mendacity on the spot, and instantly took her to the hospital.
Well being officers confirmed the assault medically, and the household reported the incident to the Mehgaon police.
Bhind Superintendent of Police Suraj Verma stated a number of groups have been fashioned and the accused, a resident of the identical village who was well-known to the household. He was arrested in lower than 24 hours. Police are inspecting his felony antecedents.
The Bhind case adopted an incident six days earlier in Narsinghpur’s Gotegaon space. A Class 3 woman coming back from faculty was taken on a motorbike by 28-year-old neighbour Annu Yadav on the pretext of dropping her residence. He took her into the jungle, raped her and strangled her to dying.
Narsinghpur Superintendent of Police Rishikesh Meena fashioned a number of groups the accused was arrested inside 24 hours of the restoration of the woman’s physique.
The 2 incidents come amid a broader rise in crimes towards kids throughout the nation. Based on NCRB knowledge, 1.87 lakh instances of crimes towards kids have been registered in 2024, almost 6 per cent greater than in 2023. POCSO Act offences alone accounted for 69,191 instances about 37 per cent of the overall involving 70,132 youngster victims.
Greater than 44,000 of those instances have been registered beneath Sections 4 and 6 of the Act, which take care of penetrative and aggravated penetrative sexual assault, among the many regulation’s gravest offences.
