Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, April 26

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a youth in Kasrawan village under the Hajipur police station. Earlier, the suspect had tried to rape girl’s mother when she was sleeping in a rice mill shed.

The victim’s mother, a native of Bihar, in her complaint to the police said, she along with her children was sleeping in the mill shed on Friday night while her husband was away for work at the local Dana Mandi. At 1 o’clock in the night, a youth tried to rape her while she was sleeping. She freed herself from his clutches and ran towards her husband working in mandi and narrated the incident. On returning back at the mill they found their five-year-old girl missing. The couple went out in search of their missing daughter. They heard that the victim was crying for a help from a nearby farm. When they reached there they saw that the same youth was committing the crime and on seeing them he fled the spot.

Giving information, Hajipur SHO Lomesh Sharma said the youth had been identified as Dhanak Lal, a native of Bihar, presently residing at Cheema Traders, Behbal Manjh. The police have registered a case and raids are being conducted to arrest the accused, the SHO said.