Held for assaulting minor daughters
Source: The Sangai Express
CCpur, August 19 2020:
The Churachandpur police today arrested a man who reportedly exploited his two minor daughters for the past three years.
Police sources said they received a formal complaint from a woman about 5 pm yesterday, who alleged that her former husband has been sexually exploiting their minor daughters aged 12 and 13 .
The woman in her complaint accused her former husband with whom she had parted ways sometime early this year of sexually abusing their two minor daughters from February 2017 till July 2020 at his (accused) house.
She is also claimed to have told the police that the accused threatened the girls with dire consequences if they utter a word regarding the illicit incidents to (her) their mother or anyone.
The incident reportedly came to light only after the couple parted their ways and the girls finally gained courage to inform their mother.
An FIR No 9(08)2020 WPS-CCP under section 06 of POCSO Act, 2012 was registered subsequent to the complaint, with the CCP Police and WPS under Hasby Haokip, Addl SP (IUCAW) and OC WPS Chinneilam Gangte leading a raid that led to the arrest of the accused.
The accused, police sources claimed, on preliminary interrogation admitted to have committed the crime.
He was produced before the Special Judge POCSO, Churachandpur and was remanded to police custody for 7 days.
A Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) was also conducted on the accused and it has returned negative, added the source.