11-Year-Old Raped In Maharashtra: The severe POCSO Act has also been applied, together with the new criminal code Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, in the registration of a rape complaint.
According to police, an 11-year-old girl was raped in Ambernath, Maharashtra’s Thane district. The main accused, a minor, has been detained along with five other people, four of whom are minors and one of whom is a girl.
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The 11-year-old was in Ambernath town when the accused girl talked her into accompanying her to a nearby locality, where the other accused were waiting. The girl claimed in her complaint that the main accused raped her in an auto-rickshaw there. News agency PTI reported that the accused threatened to stop the girl from discussing the assault with anyone. Nevertheless, the girl was able to escape, made it home, and informed her parents about the assault.
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A rape case has been registered under the new criminal code, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and the stringent Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act has also been invoked.
Inspector Jagannath Kalaskar of Ambernath police station said two adult accused have been remanded in police custody and the minor accused have been sent to a reform home.
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