A 25-year-old man was arrested on Friday on the charges of raping his 13-year-old niece a week before Diwali in North Delhi. Police said the man also made a 29-minute video of the incident and circulated it among friends, police said.

“The man was arrested under charges of rape and under appropriate sections of the POCSO Act. He was living in the same house as the victim’s family. He was a distant relative of the girl,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (North) Madhur Verma said.

Advocate Shubra Mendiratta, a counsellor with the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), said, “The girl had not told her mother about the incident. Her friend informed the mother about a video of her daughter doing the rounds in the neighbourhood. The mother then filed a complaint and the accused was arrested.”

Police said the accused had raped the girl when she was alone at home. He raped her on two occasions — once before Raksha Bhandhan and again before Diwali.

According to police, the man sent the video clip to a couple of friends. But it was further circulated and the girl’s friend too came across it. She informed the girl’s mother, police said. When she questioned her daughter about it, the child broke down and told her that she had been raped by the man, whom she addresses as uncle.

The man was arrested from the girl’s house.

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