Sitapur Rape Case: 7-Year-Old Minor Girl Raped, Culprit Missing in UP

In another case of a shocking rape case, a 7-year old child was raped in Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh. According to a report on ANI, the girl has been sent for further medical examination. The culprit who has committed this heinous crime is on the run. More details on the same are awaited.

The entire nation is still raging in anger over the brutal Kathua & Surat rape and murder cases, Unnao rape incident and several others. On the back of the numerous crimes being reported against minors, the POCSO ACT was amended, whereby, if convicted of raping a minor, between 0-12, death penalty will be given.

In a unfortunate and a shameful incident, that was reported on Tuesday, a woman was gang-raped in a moving car allegedly by two men after they threw her three-year-old child from the vehicle on Delhi-Dehradun national highway in Uttar Pradesh. According to a complaint lodged by the victim, she was lured by one of the accused RK Mehata on the condition of giving her a job. She was raped by Mehata and his friend after they gave her some alcoholic drink laced with sedatives. After gaining her consciousness, she went and filed a complaint.

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