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4-yr-old sexually assaulted by neighbour, accused held

By - Kanika Mehta
Update: 2016-07-26 23:57 GMT
<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">A four-year-old girl was reportedly sexually assaulted by her 30-year-old neighbour at his house in Pansali Village area of Outer Delhi’s Shahbad Dairy on Sunday evening. Admitted to the one-stop centre at the Dr Baba Saheb Ambedkar hospital, the minor girl has received multiple stitches in her 
<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">private parts. Daughter of a small-time labourer, the accused lured her to his room on pretext of offering soft drinks and snacks. 
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<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Police have arrested the accused, identified as Junaid, and he has been sent to judicial custody. 
<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Investigators said that Junaid had told them that he was heavily drunk and was not in his senses. He found the minor girl alone and took advantage of her. 
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<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">On the other hand, expressing shock over the brutal incident, Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal, who visited the minor girl at the hospital on Monday morning, tweeted: “Met 4-year-old rape victim. Marks over her body tell her brutal ordeal. In deep pain n trauma. Totally inhuman. When will Delhi b rape free? (sic).” 
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<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Lying on the bed, with her mother by her side, the four-year-old narrated her ordeal to her mother as to how her attacker slapped her and victimised her, resorting to rape at the end of it all. <div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Talking to Millennium Post,  the mother recalled: “At around 4 pm, I went to buy flour from a nearby shop. I usually set up a chaarpai in the courtyard and leave my two children, one four-year-old and the other three-year-old, with their toys to play. I returned after 15 minutes only to find that my eldest one missing. Usually, my kids go out to play with other children. So I went around and asked the other kids. They told me they were playing in the swing and then returned home. Being the last one left swinging, my daughter was approached by that man who took her away.” 
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<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">The mother, desperately fighting her tears, went on to add: “I started searching for her. My mother too joined me. It was around 5:30 pm when after checking every room in the locality; I felt maybe my daughter is inside Junaid’s room. Earlier, I had missed it but I felt something was wrong. We both barged into his room and saw Junaid lying on top of my child. I called up others and we thrashed him and handed him over to the police.” 
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<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Recalling how she found her daughter, she said: “She was unconscious and bleeding profusely from her private parts.” <div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">
<div data-style="color: #444444; font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;">Investigators said a case under Sections 363, 376 and relevant sections of POCSO Act has been registered against the accused at Shahbad Dairy police station. 

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