Raipur, Aug. 19 -- Raipur police on Tuesday arrested eight persons, including a man in connection with repeated rape of his 16-year-old daughter and allegedly falsifying her age to facilitate her delivery and selling her newborn son for Rs.1.5 lakh, police said on Wednesday.

Deputy commissioner of police (West), Raipur urban, Robinson Ghuria said the survivor lodged a complaint at New Rajendra Nagar police station on Monday, alleging that her father raped her in 2023 at a relative's house in Amlidih after threatening to kill her if she disclosed the incident.

A case was registered a sections 64(2)(f), 65, 336, 337, 61(2), 351(2), 115(2), 89 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, sections 4(2), 5(n) and 6 of the Protection of Children ...