New Delhi: In a bizarre incident that has come to light from Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, a six-year-old girl, studying in UKG, was saved from a rape bid by a group of monkeys, which charged towards the man, a Times of India report said.
Police sources said that after her parents lodged a complaint, the unidentified accused was charged under the POCSO Act and is absconding.
The parents of the girl said that a man had tricked their child into accompanying him to an abandoned house on Saturday. He disrobed her there and was trying to sexually assault her. Just then, a tribe of monkeys charged towards him. The man got scared and left the minor girl there and fled.
The girl reached home and narrated her trauma and harrowing ordeal to her family members and told them how a group of monkeys protected her from the man.
The girl’s father said that his daughter had been playing outside her house when the accused lured her. He could be spotted in the CCTV footage, walking on a narrow lane with his daughter, the man added. The man is still to be identified. “He also issued threats to my child that he would kill me… My daughter would have been dead by now had the monkeys not intervened,” the father said.
Baghpat circle officer Harish Bhadoria was quoted as saying by TOI that they are probing the incident involving monkeys. After the parents’ complaint, an FIR was lodged under BNS sections 74 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 76 (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe) and the POCSO Act. More sections will be added if required, the police officer said, adding that the cops were trying to identify and arrest the accused man. A manhunt has been launched to nab the suspect.
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