7-year-old girl raped by neighbour in Azamgarh

VARANASI: A seven-year-old girl was brutally raped by her 30-year-old neighbour Naushad (30) in a village in Azamgarh district on Wednesday and had to be rushed to Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi for a life-saving surgery.
The mother of the minor rape survivor, resident of a village in Jiyanpur police station area of Azamgarh district, said the accused neighbour Naushad runs a tent house service and has a shop outside the village.He was familiar to the minor girl due to being their neighbour and her daughter used to go to his place to play.
In her complaint to police, mother of the minor rape survivor said, “Naushad took the girl to his shop on Wednesday. Naushad came to my house later and asked me to give her clothes saying she was taking a bath at his house. When my daughter returned home she was bleeding profusely. I rushed her to the Government Women’s Hospital where doctors told me that she had been raped.”
SP Azamgarh Sudhir Kumar Singh said Jiyanpur police registered a case against Naushad and arrested him immediately while the minor girl was rushed to Banaras Hindu University hospital in Varanasi as she needed to undergo a life-saving surgery.
“The doctors at the Government Women’s Hospital referred the minor girl to BHU hospital as she needed to undergo a surgery and there was no pediatric surgeon in the hospital. The condition of the minor girl is stable after the surgery,” the SP added.