VASCO
Vasco Police on Wednesday arrested four persons from Vasco on charges of raping a minor girl.
Speaking to reporters, Vasco PI Kapil Nayak said the mother of the 17-year-old child had complained that her daughter had gone missing from her house on the night of August 11.
“Since the girl is a minor, we registered a case of kidnap under Section 363 IPC and Section 8 of Goa Children’s Act against unknown persons,” said PI Nayak.
“We started our investigation by forming teams to search the missing minor girl and we managed to trace the minor girl yesterday and we recorded her statement before the NGO.”
“It was revealed in the statement that four accused persons had sexually assaulted the minor girl independently and on different occasions.”
“One of the accused had abused her last year in August 2021 and March 2022 and was working as a driver in the house of the minor girl. The other three accused abused the girl independently since she was missing from August 11 on different occasions,” said PI Nayak.
Stating that the police then added Section 376 IPC read with 34 and 4,8,12 of POCSO Act, PI Nayak said all four accused, Mukund Rawal (35), Guru Venkatesh Guruswamy (30), Kush Jaiswal (30) and Aftar Hussain (23) were arrested under Section 376 IPC, Section 8 of the Goa Children’s Act and POCSO Act.
Vasco PSI Mayur Sawant is carrying out further investigation under the supervision of PI Kapil Nayak and guidance of Mormugao DySP Rajesh Kumar.
