A 10-year-old girl was locked in a flat in the Aerodrome
area of Indore and raped repeatedly for at least a week by a
goon-turned-property dealer with the help of a female aide. The issue came to
light when a city police team assisted by CHILDLINE team members immediately
rescued the girl from the flat.
Hailing from Sumta village of Depalpur, Indore, the minor girl and her
parents worked at Sunil's farmhouse in Hatod area of Indore. Sunil, a resident
of Kalani Nagar area of Indore, was into property dealing business for the last
few years and also ran a popular roadside restaurant in the city. Living on an
insufficient income, the family was always on the lookout for more work.When
Sunil offered the parents to help them further by employing their daughter at
his house for small jobs, the couple could not say no to the opportunity of
making additional money. But Sunil in fact had other plans for the young girl.
Sunil took the girl to his aide, Pinky’s house in the
pretext of giving her some household chores to do there for extra money. But
for at least one week, Sunil used to take the girl to Pinky’s flat and rape her
there. The flat where Pinky stayed was supposedly owned by Sunil and it was Pinky
who first beat up the little girl and then helped Sunil rape the minor.
According to Santosh Pandre, Sub-Inspector at Aerodrome
Police station, the police got the information from CHILDLINE about the girl
being locked in the flat, after which in a late night raid, the girl was
recovered from the flat. Later, female cops and CHILDLINE members talked to the
girl, who narrated about her week-long sexual exploitation by Sunil and Pinky.
The minor was subsequently taken by police to her parents, where she narrated
the painful saga to them, after which her mother submitted a complaint against
Sunil and Pinky.
A case was subsequently registered against the two accused,
Sunil Karosiya and his female aide Pinky. When the police and CHILDLINE team
picked up the girl, Sunil had already packed up his belongings and fled.
However, while on the run both the duo were booked under sections 370 (buying
or disposing of any person as a slave), 376D (rape with a minor), 324
(voluntarily causing hurt with dangerous weapons and means), (acts done by
several persons in furtherance of common intention) and 23 (wrongful gain) of
the Indian Penal Code. Sunil who is an accused in 17-18 criminal cases
including a murder case in the early 1990s, registered at Malharganj, Chandan
Nagar, Rawji Bazar and Aerodrome police stations was nabbed by the police after
four months of intensive search. After a year of legal battles and court room
sessions, Sunil and Pinky have been sentenced to life imprisonment. The court
pointed out that repeated sexual exploitation of a girl child in captivity is
one of the cruelest acts and involvement of a woman in such an act is highly
condemnable. The court in its order has also mentioned that the convicts will
remain in jail till their last breath
India has the
dubious distinction of having the world's largest number of sexually abused
children; with a child below 16 years raped every 155th minute, a child below
10 every 13th hour and one in every 10 children sexually abused at any point of
time. A study by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) also
showed that 53 per cent of the interviewed children reported having faced some
form of sexual abuse and proved that boys were as vulnerable to abuse as girls.
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