Bengaluru: An eight-year-old home-alone girl was raped by a 22-year-old neighbour on Tannery road on Friday. The victim is the daughter of a construction labourer and stays with her father, two sisters and a brother in a rented house. Her mother died sometime ago.
The three sisters go to nearby school and return home in the afternoon, while their father and brother work as labourers. On Friday, the victim returned from school alone and was getting ready to go for Arabic tuitions, when the accused, Junaid, who works as a butcher at a mutton stall nearby, barged into the house and raped her.
He fled after the girl started bleeding profusely. The incident came to light in the evening when the victim’s sisters returned home and found the victim lying unconscious in a pool of blood.
They raised an alarm and neighbours shifted her to Bowring hospital. The doctors, who examined the victim, confirmed sexual assault and the incident was reported to the police.
A police team immediately tracked down Junaid and arrested him. He has been booked under several sections of Pocso after he was subjected to medical examination. The condition of the minor girl is said to be improving.
