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LUDHIANA: The police on Friday registered a case against a 10-year-old boy for allegedly raping a 3-year-old neighbouring girl. It was reported that on Wednesday afternoon, when both the minors were alone at home, the boy took the girl to his one-room rented accommodation on the pretext of watching television and then raped her

Mother of, 3-year-old told that when her husband was at work she along with other ladies were standing outside their labour quarter in the afternoon. Her 3-year-old daughter was inside the room alone. After half an hour she returned back to her one-room rented accommodation. Sometime later her daughter started complaining pain on checking she found injuries on her body parts. On asking she named the accused.

The Inspector Davinder Singh said that the accused boy is class IV student. The accused and girls family live in the same labour quarter from years and have adjoining rooms. On Thursday when the girl and boy were alone at their respective rented accommodations, the accused took the girl to his room on the pretext of watching television and there he raped her.

The official added that the family has informed police on Friday after which the police have registered a case under sections of 376 (Rape) of IPC and Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

