Overview

• On June 17, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 14-year-old boy while fetching water near her home in Bulandshahr.
• The accused lived in the same village and was known to the victim.
• The victim’s father filed a complaint after the accused’s father allegedly threatened to kill the child and abused him during a phone call.
• Police registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act against the juvenile suspect with his father also charged.
• The juvenile has been placed in a correctional home under the juvenile justice framework with authorities still seeking to arrest his father.