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Jaipur:
A non-public college principal and father of a 14-year-old rape survivor have been arrested for allegedly tampering with the start data of the lady to assist the accused safe bail, police stated on Sunday. The principal was arrested from Deoria on Thursday whereas the lady’s father was caught from Behror in Rajasthan on Saturday evening, Station Home Officer (SHO) of Murlipura Police Station Sunil Kumar Jangir stated.
The lady had lodged an FIR in July alleging that her aunt had offered her to at least one Sandeep Yadav, a resident of Haryana, for Rs two lakh and that she was subsequently raped.
The case was registered underneath numerous sections of the IPC and POCSO Act and after investigation, her aunt, Sandeep Yadav, and his father Satveer Yadav have been arrested and despatched to judicial custody.
In the intervening time, the lady’s father Sanjay allegedly contacted a non-public college in Uttar Pradesh to acquire a false file to say that the lady was an grownup and never a minor.
“The college principal Prannath Mal tampered with the varsity register and gave a false start file. The doc falsely said that the lady’s start yr was 2003. We discovered the start yr had been modified from 2010 to 2003, thus making her 21-year-old,” he stated.
The SHO stated after the lady registered an FIR, police had obtained her file during which she is a minor. When the second doc got here up, police suspected it to be false and registered a separate case and a workforce was despatched to Uttar Pradesh for verification.
“The workforce discovered that tampering was carried out within the college register. The register was seized and the principal was arrested. Throughout interrogation, he stated the lady’s father had approached him to hunt a false file. After this, the lady’s father was additionally arrested on Saturday evening,” he stated.
The SHO stated the principal and the lady’s father have been arrested within the second case associated to tampering with paperwork.
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