BHOPAL : A Dalit girl was allegedly raped by a dairy owner in Bairagarh Kalan within the limits of Khajuri police station. A case was registered against the accused on Saturday following the complaint of the victim.
According to police, the 21-year-old victim resides at Bairagarh Kalan village and was pursuing BA course from a private college. In her complaint she stated that around two days ago she went out from her house for purchasing some items from a nearby grocery shop.
The accused Virendra Meena, who also resides in the same village and runs a dairy, lured her and took her to a desolate place in his car where he outraged her modesty and also threatened to kill her on revealing the incident to anyone. He later dropped her at Khajuri Kalan.
The terrified victim girl remained silent for a day but on the next day she mustered courage and narrated her ordeal to her sister-in-law after which she along with her parents, she approached Khajuri police station and lodged an FIR. A case under sections 376 and 506 of the IPC and several provisions of SC/ST Act has been registered against the accused. In another incident, two men barged into an under-construction house and tried to outrage modesty of a 22-year-old married woman while she was asleep in Gandhi Nagar area late on Friday night. When the victim raised an alarm, her husband who was sleeping in the adjacent room woke up following which both the miscreants fled from the spot. Gandhi Nagar police said that complainant Durgesh Vanshkar told police that he is guard in the under-construction house of Murari Sharma in Gandhi Nagar where he resides along with his wife.
