Seven-year-old girl abducted from hospital, sexually assaulted in Telangana's Vikarabad district

A case has been registered under section 376 of IPC and sections 3 and 4 of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and formed three special teams to nab the accused.

HYDERABAD: A seven-year-old girl was abducted from Tandur government hospital and sexually assaulted by an unidentified man on Saturday night.

Tandur police said that a woman, hailing from Yelmakanna village in Tandur mandal of Vikarabad district, came to the hospital for a check-up with her seven-year-old granddaughter.

While the woman was waiting for her turn to meet the doctor, a stranger approached her telling that he would take the girl out for breakfast and in the meantime, she could have a consultation. The woman thought that the stranger was accompanying another patient and handed over the girl to him.

When the girl did not come back till evening, the elderly woman panicked and approached the police late in the night after searching for the girl in the neighbourhood. The police immediately swung into action and formed teams to trace the girl.

Meanwhile, some municipal workers saw a man in his early 30’s along with a young girl. They intercepted him and questioned his whereabouts. The man told the workers that he worked in a stone polishing factory, but the workers got suspicious. Sensing danger, the man left the girl there and ran away from the place.

The workers then told the police about the girl, who took the girl to the hospital for treatment. Medical tests confirmed that the girl was sexually assaulted, police said. A case has been registered under section 376 of IPC and sections 3 and 4 of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and formed three special teams to nab the accused.

The girl’s parents died when she was two years old in an accident and since then she has been living with her maternal grandmother, who does some petty work for livelihood.

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