Juvenile Sent to Children’s Reform Home After Being Arrested for Crime of Rape

  May 24, 2024 By: INSEC

A 17-year-old boy who was arrested on May 22 for the charge of raping a 15-year-old girl has been sent to the Children’s Reform Home Birgunj on 23 May 2024.
Saptari Police reported that the bench of Judge Dipak Kumar Dahal of the District Court, Saptari ordered to send him to the Children’s Reform Home on the same day. The juvenile was subsequently sent to the Children’s Reform Home in Birgunj on May 23.
The 41-year-old mother of the victim filed a complaint at the Area Police Office in Kadarbona on July 27, alleging that the accused had raped the victim on July 26. Additionally, the victim also stated that the accused raped her while she had gone to graze goats and cut firewood on the hills of Rajaji forest in Khadak Municipality-4.
Although a formal complaint was registered at the Area Police Office in Kadarbona on August 6 and the arrest warrant against the accused was issued on 7 August, the accused remained absconding till the time of arrest.
The health examination of the victim was done on July 27 at Provincial Hospital Lahan, Siraha.

Manohar Kumar Pokharel