85 year old rape accused arrested after being discharged from hospital
Jajpur,NOV 24 : 85 year old rape accused the father-in-law of a senior government officer was discharged from a hospital in Bhubaneswar on Monday evening after undergoing treatment for his old age ailments since last 17 days. Following this, he was formally arrested by the Jajpur police.
We arrested Prafulla Chandra Mohapatra the father-in-law of Pramod Prusti the former Deputy Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Commissioner (BMC) on the alleged charges of raping and impregnating a minor tribal girl of a village under Balichandrapur police station in Jajpur district in his son-in-law ‘s house in Bhubaneswar. During interrogation, the accused confessed to his crime. The accused was produced in the court of district and session judge at Jajpur . The court rejected his bail application and remanded him into jail custody, said Sangram Tudu the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) , Jajpur.
The 15-year old tribal girl was allegedly repeatedly raped by the 85 year old accused for the past 12 months. The minor girl was found to be in an advanced stage of pregnancy due to sexual assault on her multiple occasions. The victim minor girl was working as a domestic help in the house of Pramod Prusti the former Deputy Commissioner of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) since last year in Bhubaneswar. The girl ‘s mother filed an FIR in Balichadrapur police station on 2nd November and alleged that 85 year old Prafulla Chandra Mohapatra the father-in-law of Pramod Prusti had been repeatedly raping her daughter at the house of his son-.Acting on the FIR , police launched investigation and filled a case against the octogenarian accused under sections- 376 (rape) of IPC , section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) and section- 3 of SC and ST Prevention of Atrocity ) Act, 1989 , added the police officer.
