At around 6.30 am, the girl had gone to a nearby shop to buy some household items, when the constable allegedly lured and then forced her inside the police post
A father saved his six-year-old girl from sexual assault on Saturday morning. The auto-rickshaw driver reached the police post at Gautam Buddh Nagar just in time when a police constable was molesting his child.
At around 6.30 am, the girl had gone to a nearby shop to buy some household items, when the constable allegedly lured and then forced her inside the police post; No one else was around at the time of the incident.
"The constable took my daughter inside the chowki. He undressed her and touched her inappropriately. Somehow, she managed to escape and narrated the incident to her mother. She, however, ignored it," said the vicitm's father.
Later, when the girl was heading to school around 7 am, the constable tried to drag her inside the police post again.
"On noticing this, I raised an alarm and ran towards the post to save my daughter. Seeing me running towards him, he loosened his grip on my daughter. She then narrated the earlier event to me. As I tried to apprehend the police man, he ran away from the spot," the father added.
Hundreds of angry locals from Kulesara village gathered outside the police chowki demanding the arrest of the accused.
"Narendra, the constable was arrested within an hour of the incident. He was found in a inebriated state. He has been terminated from service with immediate effect and booked under non-bail able charges of 376 (Rape) and 511 (Attempted abduction) and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act," said Suniti, Superintendent Of Police (Rural).
Narendra, a native of Partapur in Meerut, had been posted at Kulesara for the past four years of his 27-years of service.
Locals have alleged that the constables posted at the Kulesara police post are mostly found in an inebriated state and people are afraid of approaching them to get their complaints registered.
According to Sandeep, a resident of the area: "We are afraid of the police, though they are our custodians. They are almost always drunk and people do not trust them. If you pass by the police station, you will find people drinking around the post and the police take no action to stop it. The strength of the post is also less."
Harvir Singh, in-charge of Kulesara police outpost said though the staff strength is 5-6 on an average, a lot of their men have been deployed at board examination centres in the area.
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