Parents Settle Daughter's Rape Case For Money! Girl Lodges Complaint in Shocking Incident From Delhi

New Delhi, April 17: In a deplorable case emerging from the capital, it has come to light that parents of an 18-year-old girl in Delhi took bribe from the men who raped their daughter in order to "settle" the rape case. It is the courage of the girl which has forced police and others to take notice of this case as she has got her parents booked for settling the rape charge against the two accused and forcing the victim to withdraw the case for Rs 20 lakh. The girl has alleged that she was raped in August in the year 2017.

According to a report in the Times of India, one of the accused in the case who was out on bail, offered money to the parents of the victim in order to settle and withdraw the case. The money offered was Rs 20 lakh. Surprisingly, the parents accepted the offer and started pressuring the girl to take back the case. When the girl protested against this, the parents beat her and tortured her says the victim. The parents took an advance of Rs 5 lakh to withdraw the rape case of their daughter. But the girl, who refused to bow down to this injustice, where the advance of Rs 5 lakh was kept in the house and took it to the police. The police has arrested the mother of the victim but the father is missing as he has run away.

The complaint was registered by the girl in Aman Vihar police station and the police registered the case under Sections 195 (A), 506 and 120 (B) and section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act. The police is now on a look out for the father of the girl who equally pressed the girl to take back the case and was party to the deal of withdrawing the rape case of her daughter for money from the accused.

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