he religious minorities, mainly Hindu and Christian women and children continue to be oppressed and persecuted, at the same time facing the risk of being kidnapped, forcibly converted, raped, and coerced into a "marriage" with an older or elderly man, Gatestone Institute reported.
According to the police, a case under IPC sections 376, 376(2)(n), 109, and 114 and also under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act has been registered at Kashimira police station, and a hunt to nab the accused trio is on.
The accused had raped a 12-year-old tribal girl at her under construction house in a village under Khudel police station limits in the district on Thursday. The accused has been identifed as the main accused Armaan alias Battu (19), Raees (23) and Raees (24).
According to the reports, the accused, Babul Tumung, allegedly raped and killed the minor girl and dumped her body in the Digaru River in the Sonapur area in Kamrup (Metro) district on June 28. Later, police recovered the body from the river.
Following the complaint, a First Information Report under sections 376 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 6 of the POCSO has been registered at the Roop Nagar police station, New Delhi.
A retired police personnel posted in Crime Branch allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, a police official said on Monday.