Youth, woman friend arrested for sexually assaulting 10-year-old girl: Police
Meghawadi police arrested a 24-year-old man and his 21-year-old woman friend on Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl with a screwdriver, causing injury to her private part. The accused also filmed the crime, the police said.
According to the police, the girl's 36-year-old mother works as a supervisor in a catering service firm. She lives in a chawl. The accused, both waiters who work under her, also stayed with her.
As per the police complaint, when the girl's mother was out at work between May 15 and June 14, the accused sexually assaulted the 10-year-old at least four times.
Police said the 24-year-old man allegedly raped the girl several times, assaulted her with a screwdriver while his girlfriend filmed the crime.
The man also allegedly assaulted the girl with blunt objects and threatened to make the video viral if she told her mother about it, police said. On Thursday, she told her mother about the sexual assault, who reported it to the police.
'Both accused have been arrested. They were produced before a special court, which remanded them in two-day police custody,' said Sambhaji Jadhav, senior inspector, Meghwadi police station.
Police have pressed sections 64(1) (rape), 64(2)(i) (rape on a woman incapable of giving consent), 77 (voyeurism), 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult by abusing), 351(3) (criminal intimidation by threatening to cause death or grievous hurt) of BNS; 4, 6, 8 and 12 of POCSO Act, and 66E and 67B of IT Act.
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