Rapes Of Three More Minor Girls Come To Light In City

Three more incidents of rapes of minor girls have come to light in Hyderabad even as the police investigation continues in the May 28 gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl by five persons in a car.

Since the sensational Jubilee Hills case came to light, a total of five more cases have been reported. Two of these crimes were reported from the Old City on Sunday.

In one of the latest reported incidents, the Karkhana police arrested five persons for sexually exploiting a minor girl in the name of friendship.

The police also arrested the owners of two lodges where the accused exploited her.

The police clarified that it was not a gang-rape but that the accused had exploited the girl in different days in two lodges. The accused include two juveniles.

A case was registered at Karkhana police station on May 30 on a complaint by the girl's father.

According to the police, the accused befriended the class 10 student over the social media. They then allegedly took some photographs of her in a compromising position and continued blackmailing her.

In two other cases, two minor orphan girls were sexually assaulted by youngsters who had befriended with them. Both the girls were students of a junior college in the city.

The incidents occurred in April but came to light after the warden of the girls' hostel learnt about them and lodged a complaint with the police.

Two cases were registered under zero FIR at the Humayun Nagar police station and later transferred to the Ramgopalpet and Rajendra Nagar police stations.

The accused were booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

One of the girls was sexually assaulted by one Suresh, 23, in a car on Necklace Road abutting Hussain Sagar in the heart of the city. He had called her for the birthday party of a friend.

In the second incident, the girl was lured and raped by a minor boy in a theatre in a shopping mall in the Attapur area. The boy allegedly took the girl out of the theatre in the middle of a show and sexually assaulted her on the same premises.

The police apprehended the juvenile and sent him to an observation home.