31-year-old man arrested for raping, impregnating minor girl

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On Thursday, the Old Goa Police arrested a man, named Mohammed Rafik Patel, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl. Mohammed Rafik Patel, 31, is a resident of Curca, Tiswadi and hails from Haveri in Karnataka.

The original complaint was forwarded by police station from south Goa wherein during investigation of a kidnapping crime the victim girl had stated that in the month of November 2018 the accused person had called her at his residence at Kalapur, Tiswadi and had forceful sexual intercourse with her, due to which she is currently pregnant and after knowing about the pregnancy the accused stopped being in contact with her.

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The accused was in friendly terms with the victim's family. Police Inspector Jivba Dalvi informed that after receiving the complaint, police immediately registered the FIR under Section 376 Indian Penal Code (IPC), 8(2) of Goa Children's Act and Section 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

Post the registering the complaint, the accused was immediately arrested within two hours of registration of crime and has been remanded to five days police custody. Further investigation is currently underway.

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In a similar incident, a man was arrested in Shamli in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly raping his fifteen-year-old daughter. Superintendent of Police (SP) Shamli, Ajay Kumar said, "A man has raped his fifteen-year-old daughter. Villagers informed an NGO about this incident. The NGO told the police that the survivor was also beaten."

"Villagers also informed that the survivor was suffering from an illness in the stomach and that she could not speak. However, it is not clear whether she is dumb by birth. She has been admitted to a hospital in Muzaffarnagar," Kumar added.

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