UP jewellery shop owner held for raping minor employee in captivity
KANPUR, June 18 -- A jewellery shop owner in his 50s was arrested on Wednesday in Kanpur for holding his 15-year-old employee captive at his farmhouse, drugging her and repeatedly raping her, police said. The accused was arrested after the victim complained to Kanpur commissioner of police Raghubir Lal, officers said.
According to the police, the teenager started work at the accused's jewellery shop on May 1. Within days, the accused began making inappropriate advances at her and eventually took her to his farmhouse in Bithoor under the pretext of teaching her to ride a scooter.
"The accused allegedly confined her to a locked room, stripped her, and subjected her to repeated sexual assault. He threatened to frame her family in a false theft case and have them killed if she spoke out. The survivor approached the police after enduring days of continuous torture," said Dhananjay Kumar Pandey, SHO, Fazalganj.
Acting on her complaint filed on May 10, police began a preliminary investigation. Once the allegations were verified, the accused was booked under relevant sections of Pocso Act and BNS, and arrested on Wednesday, said Pandey. A raid at the Bithoor farmhouse led to the recovery of several incriminating items, including aphrodisiacs, from the room where the teenager was held, police added. The man was also accused of rape by a woman employee in 2018, for which he was imprisoned for nine months....
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