Angul, August 19: While the nation was celebrating the 79th Independence Day this Friday, a minor girl was mourning at home, being sexually assaulted by her cruel stepfather.
She was reportedly received from her school hostel by the stepfather and was later raped at home.
The heinous incident took place in a village under the Pallahara Sub-division in Angul district.
The incident wreaked outrage in the area, when a Zero-FIR was lodged with the Pallahara PS by the survivor’s mother on Tuesday.
According to the report, a fatherless girl was residing in a Tribal Welfare school hostel in Pallahara after her mother re-married one Dasarathi Das who hails from Keonjhar.
On August 15, Dasarathi visited the school hostel and received her stepdaughter, lying the Warden that his ward’s mother was ill for which the girl was needed to be at home. Following this, he took the girl to his home and raped there getting her alone. The next day he again dropped the girl in the school hostel.
Meanwhile, the girl briefed her ordeal to her mother over phone on how the stepfather looted her everything becoming a monster.
Following this, the victim’s mother lodged a complaint with police.
Based on it, the police registered a case and initiated an investigation into the incident.
As of now, the Police have detained the accused and escorted him to the crime spot for further investigation