NEW DELHI: A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an elderly man at a factory in Bawana area of Delhi when the mother of the victim girl was out on work, a senior police officer said on Monday.
The accused, identified as Sabir Khan (50), was nabbed from UP’s Hamirpur area after 15 days of investigation.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (outer-north) Sachin Sharma said the mother of the victim child approached the police on October 25 alleging rape of her daughter following which the police initiated an investigation into the matter.
The mother, who work in a factory told police that Sabir lured her daughter to a factory where he allegedly raped her and fled away. She was away for work, then, she said.
A case under section 65 (2) of BNS and 6 POCSO Act was registered at a local police station and a team was formed to nab the accused.
“For the last 15 days, our team conducted raids at industrial areas of Bawana in Delhi and Noida, Jhansi, Mahoba, Kanpur of UP. On Sunday, we succeeded in nabbing him from the forest area of Hamirpur,” the officer said.
The officer further said Sabir works as a labour and lives in the same area.
The police were trying to establish if he was having any previous criminal record and further investigating the case.