Hyderabad: An autorickshaw driver was arrested on Tuesday by the Meerpet Police for sexually assaulting school girls multiple times.
Police said that Kittu alias Murali Krishna would target girls going home for lunch or returning to school after lunch. He would call them inside his house in the pretext of helping his sister for some work and then assault them. He would later threaten to kill them and assault them multiple times.
Police officials said that many victims were yet to approach them.
AP Balala Hakkula Sangham, with whose help some of the victims approached the police, demanded that a rape case be booked against Krishna and the victims be rehabilitated.
One of the victims is Sahasa (name changed), a class IX student from Jillelaguda studying in a government school. A few months ago, when she was passing by Krishna’s home for lunch, he called her inside to help her sister.
“When I went inside, he gagged my mouth, undressed me and assaulted me sexually. I was scared to tell my parents. Later he started threatening to kill me and repeated the same multiple times. He should be arrested and punished severely,” she said.
Krishna’s escapades started a few months ago, when he had helped a couple elope and get married at Yadadri. Later he threatened the man with dire consequences for marrying a minor girl and assaulted her sexually for three days at a house in Ghatkesar.
For fear of being caught, the husband kept quiet. Later when the girl’s parents came to know of it, he was arrested and sent to remand. The girl did not tell her parents about Krishna.
Another victim’s mother said that her daughter had undergone the same trauma but could not go to the police as her marriage had been scheduled soon..
Police has registered a case of outraging the modesty of women added with charges under the Criminal Amendment Act 2016 and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Krishna has been arrested and sent to remand.
“We have taken action on the complaint we received from one girl. If more victims come forward, we will register cases and take action,” said Meerpet inspector Ch. Rangaswamy.
