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Case posted by | Ambedkar Lohia Vichar Manch |
Case code | OD-15.02.2024 |
Case year | 08-Feb-2024 |
Type of atrocity | Rape |
Whether the case is being followed in the court or not? | Yes |
Fact finding date | Not recorded |
Case incident date | 08-Feb-2024 |
Place | Village: Not recorded Taluka:Not recorded District: KENDRAPARA State: Odisha |
Police station | Not recorded |
Complaint date | 01-Jan-1970 |
FIR date | 09-Feb-2024 |
A media report carried the horrible news of rape of a 4 year old girl. It was tracked, the reporter was contacted and fact finding of the case was conducted and it revealed as under.Charapada is a village under Nikirai police station in Kedrapara district Odisha; nearly 30 families belonging to Scheduled Caste community dwell in this village. One of the SC families is Khetrabasi. Khetrabasi is a migrant worker and stays at his work place at Pune while his wife Pravati, mother, 4 year old daughter Sarita (named changed) and 8 year old son Manoj live in their house at Charapada. Khetrabasi was out of house since 4/5 months.
On 08.02.2024 at about 3 pm Pravati was taking her lunch inside her house while her daughter Sarita (named changed) was playing in her veranda. She was not very watchful about Sarita. But suddenly her daughter came to her crying. When Pravati asked her why she was crying, she narrated how she was taken to a secluded place by her uncle, namely Papuni and there he caused penetrative sexual assault on her causing bleeding injury.
On hearing that, Pravati checked the private part of her daughter and found the bleeding injury. She took the kid to the house of the accused (Papuni); there Sarita got hold of the hand of Papuni and asked him why he did this? Papuni had no answer to that.
The kid was continuing to bleed. She was taken to the health centre. Allegedly, the lady doctor in the health centre was rude and delayed the treatment. The matter was reported to Nikire police and FIR no 43 was registered on 9.2.24 under Sections 376AB IPC with 4 of POCSO Act. The accused is arrested and forwarded to jail custody.