CISF Jawan Allegedly Rapes Colleague's 4-Year-Old Daughter In Odisha’s Paradip

A CISF jawan posted in Odisha’s Paradip allegedly raped his colleague’s four-year-old daughter, police said on Saturday. The accused hails from Tamil Nadu and was posted in the IOCL township in Paradip. Jagatsinghpur district assistant superintendent of police BC Mishra said that the accused has been arrested.

The accused knew the victim as she is the daughter of another Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel who is deployed at the Paradip Refinery Project of the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL), police said.

The accused, a head constable in the CISF, allegedly lured the girl to his quarter with chocolate on Friday night and raped her, they said. A case has been filed after the girl’s family lodged a complaint at Abhaychandpur police station on Saturday, police said. Medical examination of the girl has been completed and further investigations are underway, they added.

The incident has surfaced on the day when a Delhi Court convicted two men for raping a five-year-old girl in east Delhi in 2013. Additional Sessions Judge Naresh Kumar Malhotra convicted Manoj Shah and Pradeep Kumar in the case, and said the child, who was just five years old, experienced "exceptional depravity and extreme brutality".

Shah and Kumar had raped the girl at Gandhi Nagar area and shoved objects in her private parts on April 15, 2013. They had fled after committing the crime, leaving the victim at Manoj's room believing her to be dead. The child was rescued 40 hours later on April 17, 2013. "Collective conscience of the society shaken. In our society, minor girls are worshipped as goddess," the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court said.

(With PTI Inputs)