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A weekend of nightmare for minors

Staff Reporter

Capital records five incidents of criminal assault in the past 24 hours

Victims include a mentally challenged girl
Accused arrested in some of the cases

NEW DELHI: In a sudden spurt in criminal assault cases, the Capital recorded five such incidents involving minors over the weekend.

A 12-year-old mentally challenged girl was allegedly criminally assaulted by a young man in her house at New Ashok Nagar in the early hours of Sunday. The incident took place when the victim’s grandmother took her to the bathroom. The accused -- who lives with his brother and sister-in-law on the second floor of the same building – entered the house, overpowered the grandmother and tied up her hands. He then allegedly assaulted the girl in the bathroom. Hearing the screams of the grandmother, the victim’s mother who was sleeping with her two younger sons, rushed to the bathroom, but the accused had fled by then.

The police have registered a case and launched a hunt for the 23-year-old accused who is a mini-bus driver. The victim’s father is a businessman and was away on a trip to Agra.

In another case reported on Saturday, a young girl was criminally assaulted by her neighbour in Najafgarh. According to the police, the incident took place around 2-30 p.m. when the girl had gone to a nearby cow-shed. Finding her alone, the neighbour forced himself on her. The police have arrested the accused.

A three-year-old girl was allegedly assaulted by a 22-year-old man at Uttam Nagar on Saturday. Another minor girl fell prey allegedly to her 37-year-old brother-in-law at Bindapur on Friday night. The incident was reported to the police on Saturday, following which the accused was arrested.

In yet another case, four persons, some of whom are suspected to be minors, allegedly tried to criminally assault a six-year-old girl at Rohini Sector 20 on Sunday morning. The girl had gone to a temple to get “prasad” when the miscreants took her to a dilapidated house on some pretext. The child escaped from the clutches of the accused as some children reached there after hearing her screams. The police have arrested one of the accused and launched a hunt for the others.

The Khajoori Khas police on Sunday registered a case against a man for allegedly molesting his eight-year-old neighbour about two months ago. According to her parents, the incident had taken place when they had gone to attend a wedding ceremony and the victim was alone in the house.

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