According to police, the arrested woman identified as Geeta, a resident of Ludhiana, Punjab, lured a 15-year-old girl while her parents went to their native place and held her captive in Surat, Gujarat, for four months.
A youth was arrested on charges of molestation at a village within the Kotulpur PS area in Bankura.
Hundreds of villagers, primarily women, blocked the road connecting Falakata in Alipurduar district today to protest the alleged rape and murder of a five-year-old girl.
The incident occurred at the Siddh Baba hillock near the Puchi village on Tuesday.
On allegations of negligence from police officers on rape and murder of a 9-year-old school girl, a mob set a police outpost and vehicles on fire at Mahishmari Joynagar in South 24-Parganas, this morning.
The broader point which needs to be made is that the moment rape statistics become part of political mudslinging, we are on a slippery slope.
"The communication officer judged the caller to be in trouble and called her back immediately and tried to speak to her. The caller who was reluctant in sharing her plight was convinced by the Supervisor Communication Officer to divulge more details,"
During interrogation, the accused admitted to committing the heinous crime. He revealed he was on his way when he saw the victim playing with her younger brother in a park, lured her to a location where he raped and murdered her and fled from the spot.
“Perpetrators of sexual offences on innocent children are psycho-social deviants, who cannot lay any claim to leniency, a special POCSO Court judge Behari observed in the judgment.
The International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda issued many indictments on charges of torture and genocide for crimes involving the sexual violence against women.
