POCSO Act

Mukul and the 15-year-old arrested in the case were neighbours. The girl's father and Mukul's father work in the Railways.

Organiser journalist Subhi Vishwakarma went to the village where the family of the accused and the victim stayed. She talked exclusively to relatives of accused Imran who tried to blame the victim, calling her 'characterless'.

The police have filed an FIR under sections 376 and 376(3) of the Indian Penal Code, 1860, and sections 4 and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO), 2012. Also sections 3(1)(w)(i) and 3(1)(w)(ii) of the SC/ST Act, 1989 have been imposed against the accused.

Aqdas gagged the girl and forcefully hugged her from behind before brutally raping her. Following that, he dragged the girl into the mosque's restroom where he further raped her.

Qamar Ansari has run the bakery for a very long time. On 30th April, a 9-year-old minor girl came to his shop to buy milk. Reportedly, Ansari lured her in the name of giving her a chocolate. He took her inside the shop where she was raped.

According to the police, the victim’s mother alleged in her complaint that the accused was known to her daughter and that she was forced to have a physical relationship with him. 

The family members of Afzal Ahmed imprisoned the girl in an effort to force her to convert to Islam and marry the accused.

The accused runs a chicken shop close to the Orange Hospital on Mira Road and was known to the victim. He used to offer her chocolates despite objections by her father.

The complainant, who has filed sexual assault case against BS Yediyurappa has reportedly been filing similar complaints against well-known politicians, police officers and her business partner since 2015

A special court in Rajasthan's Kota sentenced a Muslim cleric to life imprisonment for unnatural sex with a 10-year-old boy in a mosque.