Court treats ‘minor’ who raped girl as adult

The parents of the accused claimed that he is a ‘minor’ and urged the court to refer him to the juvenile home but the judge relied on his statements given to the police that he was born in 1996 and rejected the request of his parents to send him to juvenile home.

According to senior police officers of the Outer district, the 20-year-old was produced in a court on Wednesday and was sent to judicial custody.

“During the interrogation, the accused said that he was born in 1996. However, we have not been able to find any documents which can establish that he is a adult. We are going by his statements. On the other hand, the family kept saying that the accused is a minor,” said a senior police official.

Meanwhile, the eight-year-old girl is currently stable and was discharged from the hospital, the girl’s father told Millennium Post.

In the early hours of Saturday, an eight-year-old girl, who was sleeping outside her house, was allegedly abducted and raped by a youth in Outer Delhi’s Kirari area.

According to the police, the incident took place in the wee hours of Saturday when the accused 

allegedly gagged the girl, took her to a secluded spot near her house and raped her. The minor girl was sleeping in a bed with her cousin outside their house when the accused took her away.

According to the girl’s mother: “My daughter told me that she was sleeping when a man came and took her to a place 200 metre away from our house. He raped her. After which, he checked to see if my daughter is breathing or not. Pretending to be dead for five minutes, she held on to her breath and lay there motionless. Convinced that my daughter is dead, that man left. Finding the time right, she got up and started running towards the house. However, that man saw her running towards our house and ran after her. However, he tripped over a stone and fell down. Meanwhile, my daughter managed to enter the house and woke us up. She told me and my husband what that man did to her.”