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AGRA: Three days before he was set to retire, an assistant sub-inspector posted at Manth chowki of Mathura at the Agra-Delhi Yamuna Expressway was arrested on Tuesday for raping his 35-year-old married daughter. According to his colleagues, it was difficult for them to believe that the 58-year-old who was looking forward to be with his grown-up sons and grandchildren in superannuation could do something like this.

Circle officer Sanjay Kumar Sagar said that the accused has been arrested and placed under suspension. He said the accused’s daughter has filed a complaint alleging that the cop had raped her when she had come to meet him at the chowki on Monday.

Sources in the police department said the accused has admitted to his crime and also claimed that his daughter “provoked” him to do this. During preliminary investigation, the woman revealed that her father had physically abused her when she was a 14-year-old. After her marriage, her sexual exploitation stopped and she didn’t suspect that her father would assault her again after so long. In her complaint, the survivor said that she came to Agra for some medical tests and since it got late, she decided to stay with her father at the police outpost for the night and come back to Agra for more tests instead of going to her in-laws’ house in Firozabad.

“I thought my father must have changed in so many years, but I was proved wrong,” she told police. Soon after the incident, she called up her husband who came to the spot and called up police.

Mathura senior superintendent of police Vinod Kumar said that a case has been registered on the complaint of the woman under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation). He said that the woman was sent for a medical examination and the investigation is on.

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