Three people were arrested after a case of sexual assault on a 14-year-old residing at an orphanage came to light in Telangana. The girl, living at Maruti Orphanage at Medchal district, was allegedly made to drink soft drinks laced with sedatives and was raped. This continued for over one year. Based on the survivor's statement, the Ameenpur police, under Sangareddy district, on Friday arrested 51-year-old Naredla Venugopal Reddy, a donor to the orphanage and an employee with Reddy Labs. The police also arrested the owner of Maruthi Orphanage, Chielukuri Vijaya, who is also the hostel’s warden, and her brother Surapaneni Jayadeep.
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The girl has undergone a medical test at Nilopher hospital and has been shifted to a children's home in Hyderabad. Officials with the Women and Child Welfare Department have rescued 50 other girls who were residing at the registered Child Care Institute (CCI). Maruti orphanage is one of the 130 CCIs operational in Medchal district. The girl was enrolled into the orphanage in 2015 by her uncle and the abuse allegedly began in 2019, when the hostel warden instructed the girl to go to a room on the fifth floor of the orphanage with Venugopal, who gave donations to the orphanage.
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Police have registered cases against the accused under Section 376(3) for rape, Section 342 for wrongful confinement, Section 323 for voluntarily causing hurt, Section 328 for causing hurt by means of poison and Section 506 for criminal intimidation, under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as well as under sections of the POCSO Act 2012.
