Jun 6, 2012: Man held for raping minor

TNN | Jun 6, 2012, 04.24AM IST

KOLKATA: A man in his late 30s was arrested from Shandapura village in West Midnapore's Mohonpur on Tuesday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl a couple of weeks back. After committing the crime, the accused - Prana Krishna Chandra - allegedly threatened the victim that he would tell her parents about her affair with a boy in the village. However, the victim lodged a complaint with Mohonpur police station immediately. She also made a confessional statement before a court under section 164 of CrPC on May 23.

Sources said Chandra had seen the victim, a Class VIII student of a local school, with her neighbour Rabindra Jana. "Jana, a Class X student of another local school, was having an affair with the victim for over a year," said sources.

On Tuesday, the victim and her father, a daily labourer, visited the CPI's Paschim Banga Mahila Samity office and lodged a complaint with its district secretary Bharati Rana, who later took them to the West Midnapore SP. The SP referred them to the additional SP Kalyan Mukherjee before whom the victim's father filed a written complaint against both Chandra and Jana. The victim reportedly wanted Jana to marry her. "She also demanded Jana's arrest. Both Jana and the victim, incidentally, are minors," said police sources.

Later, officials from Mohonpur police station arrested Chandra. The additional SP said the victim had named Chandra as the accused in her confessional statement, where there was no mention of Jana. The Mohonpur IC has been told to probe the complaint against Jana, Said Mukherjee.
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