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Friday, May 06, 2005

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Incest: victim exploited since five years

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: A day after the 17-year-old girl of Khajipura in Shahalibanda alleged that she was sexually assaulted by her father, even more shocking "revelations" tumbled out of the incest case.

The accused, Syed Sadiq Hussain, reportedly used to tell the girl that incest was common in every family, the Falaknuma ACP, R. Gopala Raju, said on Thursday. The girl told the police that she mustered courage to approach the police after learning about a similar sordid story of a girl in Kanchanbagh through the media.

She said that the sexual assault had been going on for the past four to five years. Hussain, a welder, had eight children through his first wife and the victim was the eldest.

Whenever his wife went to her parents' house, Hussain allegedly used to sexually exploit the girl. When she resisted, he would threaten to kill her and other family members as well if she revealed the matter to anyone. Finally, it was the girl's teacher who persuaded her to seek police assistance.

Incidentally, Syed Sadiq Hussain, who was rounded up today, denied the charges saying his daughter was trying to take revenge on him.

However, Hussain kept mum when asked as to what drove his daughter to implicate him in false case, the ACP said.

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