UP govt official arrested for raping 6 year-old-girl at her house in Bulandshahr
Lucknow/IBNS: A 57-year-old government official has been arrested for raping a six-year-old Dalit girl in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr and then committing bestiality with a goat, media reports said.
The survivor's family said the man used to visit the village frequently for official work and entered their house when he saw that the girl was playing in the courtyard with the child of a neighbour and no adult was present.
The rape as well as the bestiality was recorded on a mobile phone by the neighbour's child, who is about the same age as the girl.
Officials said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken note of the heinous crime and that the official has been suspended.
The state government has announced an assistance of Rs. 8.25 lakh to the girl's family.
Police officials said the accused, Gajendra Singh, a resident of Rasoolpur village, was posted as the Agriculture Development Officer (Agriculture Protection) in the Shikarpur block.
On Monday evening, he went to a village in the Ahmedgarh police station area where he saw the girl and the boy playing in the courtyard of the house. He then went and sat on a cot there.
Singh reportedly entered the house of the girl around 5 pm on Monday. The girl's family was known to him.
He raped the girl and then had unnatural sex with a goat that was tied nearby. A boy captured the crime on his phone.
Singh has been arrested and a departmental inquiry has been ordered too.
The incident comes amid a national outcry over the gruesome rape and murder of a junior doctor at Kolkata's R G Kar Medical College and Hospital. One person, a civic volunteer, has been arrested in connection with the case but protesting students suspect more people are involved in the case.
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