In a shocking incident, a 13-year-old minor was allegedly raped by a doctor in Muzaffarnagar when she visited him for treatment.
In a shocking incident, a 13-year-old minor was allegedly raped by a doctor in Muzaffarnagar when she visited him for treatment.
According to ANI, the crime, which took place on Tuesday, occurred when the girl reportedly went to the doctor's clinic for treatment.
The minor's family told the police that she was missing for the next two days before she came back in an inebriated condition. On learning the matter, the family filed a complaint at the police station.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Ajay Sehdev told ANI, "The minor has been sent for medical examination. She was drugged by the accused and then he sexually assaulted her. The accused has been arrested. During the investigation, we found some objectionable items in the clinic and we are questioning him further."
Cabinet has taken steps to protect children from sexual offences after the recent incidents of rapes reported in India.
Amid the nationwide outrage triggered by the gruesome rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, the Union Cabinet approved an ordinance on Saturday, proposing the death penalty to those convicted of raping children below 12 years of age.
Official sources here said a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, soon after he landed from his five-day European tour, sought to amend the Indian Penal Code, the Evidence Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act to introduce a new provision of stringent punishments.
Last week, as protests raged over the Kathua and Unnao rape (in which BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been arrested), Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi had floated the idea to bring in stringent law against the rape of children.
Gandhi also directed states to improve their police response to sexual offences by setting up special teams, sensitise officers and punish those obstructing probe.
Besides Gandhi, chief ministers of two BJP-ruled states — Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh and Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh — too had proposed death for the crime. At Saturday's meeting, the proposal was formally moved by the Home Ministry.
(With ANI inputs)
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