West Bengal: A physiologist has been arrested for raping a 15-year-old minor in Siliguri. The accused has been identified as Bajrang Agarwal, a resident of Bhaktinagar police station area. The victim is a resident of Malbazar. After the death of her parents, she lived at her uncle’s house in Malbazar. In 2021, she came to Bajrang’s house. Since then she was working as a house helper at Bajrang’s house. According to the victim’s family sources, Bajrang used to physically torture the girl and sometimes sexually assault her.
Eventually he raped her several times. Recently on October 20, the minor girl could not tolerate this brutality and left Agarwal’s house and reached Malbazar. She told the whole story to her uncle. After this, her uncle reached Siliguri and lodged a written complaint against Bajrang at Bhaktinagar police station on October 24. Bajrang, who was absconding for a long time, was arrested by the police on Monday. He has been charged under the POCSO Act. He was produced in the Jalpaiguri District Court on Tuesday and taken on police remand. The police is currently investigating the case thoroughly.
