A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a temple priest in Mangolpuri here two days ago.
According to the police, the victim had gone to a temple close to her house. The priesttook her inside the temple on the pretext of giving prasad and allegedly raped her. The accused also warned her against telling anyone about the act.
The girl, however, returned home and told her parents about the incident.
The parents then approached the police and a case was registered under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code. A medical examination of the victim confirmed rape.
The girl had gone to the temple alone and there was no one present there except the priest at the time of the incident, said the police.
The priest was subsequently arrested.
On Saturday, the workers of the newly-founded Aam Aadmi Party, led by its convenor Arvind Kejriwal, and a large number of locals had staged a protest outside the Narela police station here for several hours accusing the police of not taking action in a similar case.
The case pertained to the alleged rape of a minor by her 60-year-old neighbour a week ago.
The activists had demanded registration of an FIR in the matter.
Aam Aadmi Party workers claimed that the police manhandled them when they along with the family of the victim and locals reached the police station in the morning demanding registration of the FIR. The police gave in to their demand after Mr. Kejriwal reached there, they added. The police, for their part, maintained that the case had been registered even before the protest began. No arrests have been made in the case so far and the police are looking for the accused.
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please promote humanity than religion.
A temple is a place where people believe in to be so pure, and even those places has no safety for women. Forget about women, even tender children suffer.
This is where the world is heading to.
instead of teaching people religion teach them respect for others and integritiy.
It is sad to know that a temple priest has committed such a heinous crime. The five-year-old has been left with an indelible scar on her mind and condemned to be a life-long sufferer. Punishment must be meted out to the priest and other rogues who did and do similar kind of acts. Arvind Kejriwal's efforts in trying to transform the society through his activities are truly commendable.
It shows how uncivilized a man has dilapidated himself living in so
called "civilized computer era".This insane act by so called
sacrosanct priest debunks the existence of cruel and salacious people
freely moving among common people.Acts like these instigates a sense
of tension, disbelief on fellow human being irrespective of age and
gender.
Police authority should be the first to act accordingly in these
situations and ensure public safety; before someone else points finger
at their inefficiency.
Though we evolved physically from ape as said in "Darwin theory of
evolution",having seen the series of unfortunate incidents, I doubt if
we are giving a scope for anthropologists to come up with a new theory
called-"Devolution of humankind into evil"
A temple priest? In a temple? This is what our world is coming to.
Nothing else to say.
Is Kejriwal/AAP the only party that really cares about making India socially
enlightened?
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