Minor girl molested by man in city

JAIPUR: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly molested by a 35-year-old man under Bajaj Nagar police station area on Friday night. Following the incident, protesters on Saturday reached the police station and demanded immediate action.
According to Manoj Kumar Gupta, station house officer, Bajaj Nagar police station, the incident took place on Friday evening when the child’s neighbour Surendra Harijan, called the girl to his house and promised her to give some books.
“When the child went to her house on the evening, Surendra tried to show her obscene videos on the phone and molested the girl. The girl ran away from the house and went home,” Gupta added.
While the police have registered the case under relevant Sections of the Indian Penal Code, the accused in the case is on the run. The police had carried out raids at his house but the accused was nowhere to be found.
Police have also found that a similar complaint under Section 376 (rape) was registered against the accused in 2011 at Gandhi Nagar police station. “The accused in on the run and he was a habitual offender, we have sent teams at several locations to nail him down,” police said.
Meanwhile, members of the Congress party along with locals gathered o police station on Saturday and demanded immediate actions against the accused, Congress leader Archana Sharma said that relatives of the child had registered the complaint a few hours after the incident, yet police failed to take any timely action “ If police had not delayed the matter and registered the complaint on time, the accused might have been arrested. The delay in actions speaks about the unwillingness to catch on the culprit,” she added.
Archana Sharma told TOI that despite having a woman chief minister in the state, the crime against women continue to rise, “The man was a habitual offender, he had committed similar crime in 2011 and he repeated his actions on Friday too. The law and order situation in the city has gone from bad to worse,” she said.