A 29-year-old woman and her 30-year-old male friend were arrested and booked on rape and other charges for sexually abusing her three-year-old daughter and filming the obscene act on the mobile phone in Kharar, Punjab’s Mohali district, police said Saturday.
The accused persons were produced before a Mohali court after their arrest on Friday and were sent to police remand for two days.
The matter came to light when the girl’s father, a businessman who frequently travels abroad, discovered an obscene video of his daughter on his wife’s phone and reported it to the police.
Mohali women police station in-charge Baljinder Kaur Saini said the accused persons were booked under sections 65/2 (rape on a woman under twelve years of age) and 204 (impersonating a government official) and 351/2 (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Saini said the medical examination of the child was conducted, and her statement was recorded before a magistrate under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC).
According to police, the woman has been in “a relationship with her male friend” for over a year.
Saini said, “Her male friend has been threatening the girl’s father, claiming to be a police officer and warning him of consequences if he complained about their relationship. The accused have even uploaded his videos in police uniform and holding weapons on social media.”
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“The woman’s phone has been seized and sent for a forensic examination. Police are also investigating the recovery of a police uniform used by the accused,” Saini said.
“The girl was sent to her grandparents’ house after counselling by a psychiatrist to help her cope with the trauma,” the police officer said.
Saini added that the police remand of the accused would end on Sunday and that they would be produced before a court.
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