Lucknow (IANS) | A former JCO of the Indian Army has been arrested for harassing and attempting to rape his 19-year-old daughter. The accused Sushant, who has taken voluntary retirement from the Army, lives with his family in Golf City. Police said that the accused had been torturing the girl for six years.
He thrashed me and tried to rape me on several occasions, but I managed to save myself, the victim told the police. He used to beat my mother and siblings and forced me to have physical relations with him, failing which he would not pay for our expenses.
The girl said, my father took me to an isolated place a few months back and tried to rape me, but I ran away. They didn’t give us money for three months.
SHO, Sushant Golf City, Shailendra Giri said that an FIR has been registered in the matter and the accused has been arrested and sent to jail.
–IANS
