Ujjain minor rape survivor case: Auto rickshaw driver arrested for raping girl, 'tries to escape' during probe

Ujjain minor rape survivor case Police in Madhya Pradeshs Ujjain city on Thursday arrested an auto rickshaw driver for allegedly raping and brutalizing a girl aged about 12 who had been found wandering on the city streets in injured condition three days agoThe condition of the girl admitted to an Indore hospital was improving slowly said a member of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights NCPCR who visited the hospitalAccused Bharat Soni detained during the probe tried to escape when the police took him to the crime spot for recreating crime scene and collect evidence like torn clothes said Mahakal police station incharge Ajay VermaHe was chased by the policemen and caught when he fell on the cemented road after getting trapped around a corner Verma told reporters The incident took place near Jeevan Khedi locality and two policemen also sustained injured in the scuffle he saidSoni the only accused in the case is a resident of Nanakheda area of the city the official added Police had detained him on the basis of CCTV footage earlier and claimed to have found blood stains on the passenger seat of his auto rickshawThe girl was found bleeding on a road in Mahakal police station limits on Monday Medical examination found that she had been rapedShe was operated upon by a team of specialist doctors at the Government Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar Womens Hospital in Indore on WednesdayA counsellor interacted with her and found that she belongs to Satna district of Madhya Pradesh Whether she was the same girl about whom a missing person report had been filed will be confirmed after the missing girls family identifies her police saidUjjain Superintendent of Police Sachin Sharma had said earlier that they had detained a rickshaw driver and also questioned five other persons in the caseThe girls identity was yet to be established as she could not tell her name age and address properly but a counsellor interacted with her and found that she belongs to Satna district he saidA missing girl report had been filed at Jaitwara police station in Satna on September 25 Sharma addedA Special Investigation Team SIT of police is conducting further probe the SP saidSatnas Additional Superintendent of Police Shivesh Singh Baghel said the missing person report about a girl aged around 13 years and wearing a school uniform was filed at Jaitwara police station This girl was a little cognitivelychallenged as per the report filed by her family members he saidAfter seeing the images of the victim in school uniform found in Ujjain police suspected that she is the same missing girl A police team along with the missing girls family members has been sent to Ujjain for identification he saidCongress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh over the incident saying that girls women tribals and Dalits are not safe under the misrule of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJPThe brutality meted out to a little girl in Ujjain the city of Lord Mahakal is soulshattering After the torture she kept wandering from door to door for help for twoandhalf hours and then fell unconscious on the road but could not get help Gandhi said on XIs this the state of law and order and womens safety in Madhya Pradesh she askedDr Divya Gupta member child health care and welfare of the NCPCR visited the Holkar Womens Hospital in Indore during the day and met the doctors treating the girlThe girl has lost a lot of blood and has undergone a major surgery She has been given two bottles of blood so far But with the treatment her condition is gradually improving Gupta a gynaecologist herself told PTIWe have given strict instructions to the administration that no outsider should be allowed to meet the girl as she gets upset whenever she sees any stranger She gestures that the person leave the room immediately Gupta saidThe girl belongs to a tribal area and hence she has directed the doctors to also test her for sickle cell anaemia the NCPCR member addedWe are ensuring that the girl recovers physically as soon as possible but it will take a lot of time for her to recover mentally We cant even imagine what has happened to her A female psychologist has also been appointed for the girl Gupta saidThe incident shows a mirror to society she said After the rape the girl wandered on the streets of Ujjain for twoandhalf hours seeking helpsomeone should have come forward to help this child But no one came she saidGupta who is associated with the ruling BJP however also said it was shameful that the case was being politicised in view of the coming assembly elections and the Congress was trying to settle political scores with the BJPNCPCR chairperson Priyank Kanoongo urged political leaders to show sensitivity and not crowd the hospital where the girl is undergoing treatmentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability 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