The case was pursued by the police after the complainants approached the Anand Parbat Police Station in this matter.
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A thirty-nine-year-old vegetable store owner has been arrested by the Delhi Police on the charge of sexual assault on a minor girl aged 14 years, a police official said on Thursday.
Initially, the girl was allegedly assaulted by the accused in 2021. The survivor has informed her parents about her ordeal only now. After receiving a complaint on Tuesday, the police registered a case in the matter under section 376 IPC and 06 POCSO Act.
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According to the police, the accused is a neighbour of the survivor.
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The case was pursued by the police after the complainants approached the Anand Parbat Police Station in this matter.
Earlier in the first week of the month, an 18-year-old woman from Delhi’s Madangir was drugged and gang-raped by two men belonging to Meerut, whom she had met through social media.
The incident took place in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar after the woman and the men had a meal at Malviya Nagar following which she felt dizzy, and she was sexually assaulted.
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