Delhi, August 20: A senior officer in the Delhi government's Women and Child Development department is currently being investigated for child abuse after being accused of repeatedly raping his friend's 14-year-old daughter.

In order to investigate reports of child abuse, Delhi Police have filed a FIR against the senior official under the POCSO Act and various sections of the Indian Penal Code.

The official's wife has also been charged with aiding the man in the child abuse case. According to reports, the girl is a class XII student. In 2020, she lost her father, after which the accused took her to his house.

Between 2020 and 2021, the accused allegedly raped her many times, and reportedly confided this with his wife when the victim got pregnant. The underage girl informed police in her complaint that the pregnancy was terminated at home after the official's wife reportedly requested their son to acquire certain medications.

The mother of the 14-year-old victim reportedly met her on January 15 and drove her home. Even after that, the accused kept attempting to get in touch with her. She stopped going to church after he repeatedly sexually assaulted her when she was there in July of this year.

The teenager is currently receiving therapy, and a magistrate has yet to record her statement. Currently, the accused is being questioned by the police. Additionally, they have filed a FIR under POCSO Act and Sections 376(2), 506, 509, 323, 313, 120B, and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

In a separate case in Rajasthan, locals reportedly beat a police constable after tying him to a cot for allegedly raping a woman in Dausa district. However, after taking Constable Mahesh Kumar Gurjar for a medical test, police officers from the neighbourhood police station allegedly decided to release him. The victim, who is married, filed a complaint about Gurjar, who is on the run, at the Baswa police station on Thursday.

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