KOLLAM: Police team investigating the abduction of Rajast-ani girl from Oachira has charged rape case against the prime accused Muhammad Roshan in addition to the charges under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. This was following a medical test conducted at the Karunagappally taluk hospital which proved the girl was subjected to sexual assault.
Police suspects the girl was raped by the accused while the duo was in Mumbai.
The victim has been lodged at a children's home under child welfare committee after producing before a court in Karunagappally. The girl has given statement before the police that the accused had not kidnapped her, but she went by her own.
The police team had brought the abducted girl back in Oachira after it found her along with the prime accused Muhammad Roshan at Panvel in Mumbai.
While, the relatives of the accused alleged the girl was not minor, the police received a copy of the girl’s school transfer certificate that recorded her birthdate to be in September 2001, proving that she is. Police will either visit her school at Rampura in Rajastan, collecting more details on her age or go for scientific assessment of age.
Muhammad Roshan, 21, of Kannitta, Memana South, in Oachira, Ananthu, 20, of Payikkuzhi, Bipin, 20, of Changank-ulangara, and Pyari, 19, of Payikkuzhi are the accused in the case. All the accused have been charged under sections of PoCSO.
According to the police, Muhammad Roshan had taken the girl to Bengaluru in a train from Kochi and then to Mumbai. The police team had traced a phone call made by a relative of the accused to trace them in Mumbai. The police team had conducted search operations in Rajastan and Bengaluru before zeroing in on them in Mumbai.
The girl, daughter of a Rajastani couple, was abducted by the gang led by Muhammad Roshan, beating up her parents before she was dragged into a rented car and kidnapped by around 10 pm on March 18.
The family from Rajastan has been living in Oachira for the past two years, selling clay sculptures on the wayside. Recently, there were selling their sculptures along the Oachira – Valiyakulangara area.
