Four more rape cases of minors reported in Hyderabad
Even as a teen’s gang-rape in Hyderabad continues to make national headlines, four more rape cases of minors have been reported in the city.
A 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by two men while going to her grandmother’s house. The incident happened on May 31 when the girl was reported missing. A police patrol found her in the Sultanshahi area on June 1.
The cab driver had taken her to a friend’s house in Kondurg where both of them sexually assaulted her. They dropped her off the next morning. Both the accused, identified as 36-year-olds Shaik Kaleem Ali and Mohd Luqman Ahmed Yazdani, have been arrested.
The second case is of a girl who worked at a retail store from where 21-year-old Mohd Sufyan took her home on May 31 and sexually assaulted her. The girl subsequently complained of a stomach ache and the accused was arrested by the Kala Patthar police.
Another minor girl, from an orphanage, was raped in a car on April 22, though the incident has come to light only now. A 16-year-old girl had gone to celebrate a birthday party with the accused who on the pretext of buying cake and speaking to her privately raped her in the car. A phone was found with the girl in the orphanage where she was questioned. She confessed it was given to her by the accused.