Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Police have arrested a man on charges of repeatedly raping his minor stepdaughters who had to dial Women’s Helpline after they found no support in their mother.
The incident came to light when in the state capital after 1090 Control Centre received a call and dispatched the jurisdictional Gomti Nagar police to attend the distress call.
When the police team arrived, the mother of the survivors was not present at the house. They took custody of the man involved in the horrible crime.
Investigations revealed the woman had married the accused after her husband was killed five years ago. The accused was one of the suspects arrested in her husband’s murdered. He walked out of the jail following his acquittal in that murder case. He joined the woman along with her two daughters and have been living with them since then. They had also gotten married.
The survivors told the police that they had been enduring this for a long time. “As soon as our mother leaves the house for a chore, he would start misbehaving with both of us. We kept protesting against him and his disgusting acts,” the police quoted the girls as saying.
The police said the girls had mustered their courage and informed it to their mother. The mother instead of protecting her daughters took the side of offender. She gave them a sound beating. This prompted the girls to approach the helpline, an official who was part of the investigation said.
The woman’s act emboldened the offender who continued to sexually assault the minor girls, the police official added.
The neighbours told the police that the offender would consume alcohol everyday with his wife and would start abusing the girls.
The accused who is in custody is being quizzed by the police and search parties have been formed to nab the woman who is on the run since the girls reported their ordeal with the Women’s Helpline.
Gomti Nagar Police Inspector Brajesh Singh, who is one of the probing officers, said they were investigating all aspects of the case.
“We are investigating the case from every aspect. The legal action will follow based on the outcome of our investigation.”
