CM Arvind Kejriwal orders suspension of Delhi govt accused of raping minor

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Arvind Kejriwal on Monday ordered the suspension of the government official rape accused who has been booked for allegedly raping his friend's daughter several times and impregnating her. He also sought a report from the chief secretary by 5 pm today, according to ANI reports. The official belongs to the Delhi government's Women and Child Development department.

Police informed that the girl was staying with the accused – a deputy director in the WCD department – and his family at their house after her father passed away on October 1, 2020, PTI reported. The government officer had allegedly raped the girl several times between November 2020 and January 2021, said a senior police officer, adding that his wife has also been charged with giving her medicine to terminate the pregnancy. In an official statement, the government said, “He (the accused) is a deputy director in the WCD Department.

Since an FIR has been lodged in the alleged matter, the law should take its course." "The Delhi government is sensitive in regard to such serious matters of women's safety and child abuse. If he has committed any such reprehensible act, the sternest possible action should be taken against him," the statement added. The matter came to light when the girl who is now in Class 12, recently narrated the incident to a counselor at a hospital where she was admitted following an anxiety attack, police said as quoted by PTI.

The officer said that when the minor allegedly became pregnant, she informed the wife of the accused who later asked her son to get medicines for pregnancy termination and gave them to the girl. In January 2021, the girl returned home with her mother when she came to meet her. She had an anxiety attack in August this year