Hyderabad: A 62-year-old man was booked by the RGIA Police on Friday for repeatedly raping his two minor daughters at his residence for the past one year.
The incident came to light when their house owner suspected foul play, asked the elder daughter out and made her book a case against her father, an apartment watchman by profession.
The mother knew about these activities but was threatened into silence by the man, a native of Nepal, sources said.
The man, identified as Raj Bahadur, was residing at Ahmednagar in Shamshabad with his family, consisting of his wife and two daughters, aged 15 and 17, said the police inspector of RGIA, M. Mahesh.
“He said he would kill us all if I ever speak out about him and my daughters to anyone,” said the mother, adding that they had tried to approach the police before but were stopped and threatened by him.
“Bahadur has been sexually assaulting and raping his two daughters since the past one year. The matter was hushed up as the family was frightened following a death threat from him,” said the official.
He first migrated to Bihar several years ago from Nepal with his family to earn a living and then moved to Hyderabad from there, where he got a job as a watchman.
“Though he remains calm and normal while in a sober state, he becomes a beast and treats us no lesser than an animal, once he gets drunk, We have been subjected to his beatings, assaults and sexual abuse for over an year now. He started molesting my daughters when I was out on work and started to threaten me once I found out,” said the mother.
“The house owner where the family lived, noticed the mistreatment and foul play and encouraged the family to lodge a police complaint, following which we booked cases under 376 (rape) of IPC and under relevant sections of PoCSO Act,” concluded the police official.
