Accused Vinod Upadhyay (R) in Police custody.

SURAT: A kidnapping scene from Bollywood flick Baaghi II prompted a businessman’s eight-year-old girl to reveal the sexual assaults on her, allegedly by a 53-year-old man , who was their neighbour.

Rander police arrested Vinod Upadhyay, a resident of Palanpur Patiya, for allegedly sodomizing the girl and molesting her several times over the last eight months.

“While watching a Baghi II recently, the girl witnessed a scene where a girl was being kidnapped. This prompted her to narrate her ordeal to her father and she described how Upadhyay had often lured her to his house and forced her into unnatural and oral sex. Shocked parents questioned the girl in detail and after confirming about Upadhyay’s crime, they approached the police,” said a senior officer of Rander police station.

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Upadhyay used to vada paav, alu puri and chocolates as allurements to take the girl to his house. He started taking her often on the pretext of teaching drawing when there was no one at home. The accused has a 24-year-old daughter. Police said that Upadyay and the accused’s families were on very good terms.

Police booked Upadhyay under various Sections of Indian Penal Code including 376 (rape) and 377 (unnatural sex). He works as a part-time typist and live with his wife and 24-year-old daughter.

“The survivor described the assaults in detail to police,” the officer said. The little girl did not understand what Upadhyay was doing and hence she did not tell her parents initially.



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