Dungarpur,07.06.24: The district police on Friday arrested a man for raping his own 19 year old daughter at Dungarpur district.

The incident occurred at Bichhiwara police station circle on Thursday when the victim girl, her younger sister and their father were alone at the house. The accused father caught hold of the victim girl took her to one of the rooms of the house and stripped her naked. The younger sister of the victim first tried to intervein but later when she failed to do so she rushed to her aunts house called her mother and the neighbors for help. Her mother came to the house she, tried to stop her husband. Later she took a stick from the house hit him on his head. She somehow rescued her daughter and locked her husband inside the room.

The mother of the victim girl later called the police and handed over the accused to them. The victim girl went to the police along with her mother and the Sarpanch of the area and lodged a complaint against her father for raping her.

Station House Officer of Bichhiwara police station said " The accused has been arrested and has been booked under several sections of Indian Penal Code including section 376 . The Medical Examination of the accused has been done and the accused is still under police interrogation".