A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 22 year old neighbour in Shahabad area of west Delhi in the afternoon today.
"A case under relevant Sections of IPC and POCSO Act has been registered in the case at Shahabad Dairy police station and the accused arrested, said a senior police officer.
The mother of the victim had dropped her at a neighbour's place after picking her up from her school in the afternoon. While the woman had gone to bring back her younger daughter from a different school, the girl was taken away by the accused and raped, he said.
The accused was a school drop out and a jobless local youth who was known to victim as she lived just 2-3 houses apart from him, said the officer.
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The other incident of rape with a 4 year old girl came from Ranhola area in west Delhi, where a 30 year old neighbour of the victim has been arrested by the police.
The mother of the girl narrated the incident to her husband who came back from his work in the night. He confronted the accused with other locals and they beat him up before calling the police.
A case under relevant Sections of IPC and POCSO Act has been registered at Ranhola police station and the accused arrested by police.
The accused who had visited the residence of his maternal aunt had been caught while assaulting the girl and was handed over to the police.
A case was of rape and POCSO act provisions was registered and accused was arrested, said a police officer.
"Just met 7 year old girl raped yesterday by 22 year old boy in Ghazipur. Has bled profusely. Delhi is shamelessly rape capital of the world," Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliawal said in her tweet.