Agartala, April 20 -- A local court in Agartala on Saturday sent a 48-year-old man to three days in police remand for committing repeated rape on a minor girl, who happened to be a close friend of his daughter in Gandhigram of the city under Airport police station.
Police booked the accused, Uttam Valmiki, under the POCSO Act based on the complaint of the victim's father. According to the report, Valmiki, a driver by profession, had coerced and lured the minor girl, a close friend of his daughter, into a sexual relationship and raped the girl repeatedly for days on end.
Police said that a rickshaw puller, Biplab Debnath, is his closest neighbour in the Gandhigram Sharma para area, and taking advantage of this, Uttam Valmiki established a ...