Hyderabad: Kamatipura police arrested a 48-year-old head constable for kidnapping and raping a minor girl. The suspect, Mohammed Mahboob, who was posted at Kamatipura police station, claimed that he intended to marry the girl with the permission of her guardians.
Mahboob is already married and has five children. He claimed that since his wife was seriously ill he wanted to marry the girl. Police rescued the 15-year-old girl from his house in Shastripuram. As the girl was a minor police booked Mahboob on rape and kidnap charges.
Mahboob met the girl, who lives near the police station, in December 2016. He took the girl to Mumbai and other places and lived with her.
As her parents had passed away long back her brothers and a sister were looking after her. They were also ready to marry off the girl to the cop. “They forged a birth certificate to prove that the girl was 18 years old. But a medical test and school certificate showed the girl was just 15,” said south zone DCP V. Sathyanarayana.
On March 2, he took the girl to his house where he lived alone. “The girl’s family supported the head constable as he had told them that he would marry her. They allowed him to take her to shrines in Gulbarga and other cities in Karnataka and Mumbai,” inspector S. Sudarshan said.
Mahboob’s daughter’s marriage is scheduled to take place soon. He was planning to marry the minor girl after the wedding of his daughter.
