TNN | Sep 27, 2012, 04.38AM IST
KOLKATA: The one-and-a-half-year old daughter of a Kolkata Police's home guard was allegedly raped at Park Street in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The home guard, who was earlier a daily wage earner, got the job after he saved several lives during the Stephen Court blaze on March 23, 2010. Sources said he was on duty at the Police Training School on Tuesday night, while his wife was sleeping with her daughter on a Royd Street pavement, their regular dwelling.
According to locals, when the mother woke up at 1.30am, she didn't find her daughter beside her. She raised an alarm and informed other pavement dwellers in front of the 27 Royd Street building. Accordingly, they started searching the toddler along the pavement and adjacent areas. As the mother failed to trace the kid, she lodged a complaint with the Park Street police station at around 2.30am.
After informing police, the mother and other pavement dwellers again started a search for the kid and finally spotted her inside the compound of 29 Royd Street - hardly 25 metres from the place where they were sleeping. After finding blood stains and nail marks all over the body, they took the baby to Chittaranjan National Medical College and Hospital where doctors confirmed sexual torture on her. "There were wound marks on her private parts," said an officer. The condition of the kid started deteriorating and she was shifted to a private hospital in Park Street. Police said that the kid is still in a critical condition.
Police have registered a case under section 376 (2) F (rape of a girl aged under 12). Cops have already started interrogating other pavement dwellers, but are yet to get any clue. Other pavement dwellers confirmed that the mother slept at around 9 on Tuesday night. None could provide any clue for police. The
The police have also detained three pavement dwellers for interrogation.
A few months ago, the same Park Street witnessed a rape in a moving car, which proved how the city roads are turning unsafe at night.
Sanju Mullick, The mother of the victim in his early thirties is wife of Raju Mullick, a home guard of Kolkata Police. Raju who was a daily wage earner was awarded with the home guard job after he saved several lives during Stephen court blaze on March 23, 2010. Forty -three persons were charred to death in that blaze.
The Mullicks used to stay on the pavement - in front of 27 Royed Street - close to Park Street. On Tuesday night, Raju was on night duty at Police Training School. Sanju slept around 9 pm along with her daughter.
Around 1.30 am, when she woke up, found her daughter missing. She raised an alarm and informed other pavement dwellers. Initially they did not suspect anything wrong. They started a search along the pavement and adjacent areas but failed to find the kid. Then they informed Park Street police station around 2.30 am.Link: Infant raped on pavement in Kolkata, 3 detained
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