A youth was arrested for raping a 5-year-old girl in a village in Banda district,

The police said that the minor girl was raped in the village under Girwa police station on Friday night.

Circle Officer Nareni Siyaram said that a 23-year-old youth lured the minor girl to a deserted place and raped her.

Police said that when the girl’s family came to know about the incident, they reached the accused’s house to complain but his family members threatened to kill them.

The CO said that an FIR was registered against the accused under the POCSO Act, after which he was arrested on Friday night.

Along with him, three members of the family of the accused were also arrested for threatening to kill the victim’s family.

Police said that the girl’s condition was critical and she was admitted to the hospital.

Police said that as a precaution, additional force had been deployed in the village, so that there was no threat to the girl and her family members.

Meanwhile in Shahjahanpur, a woman alleged that she was raped twice by a sub-inspector who also made a video of the incident, police said on Saturday.

The woman alleged that the sub-inspector posted at the Jalalabad police station took her to a secluded place when she was returning from Shahjahanpur on January 8 and raped her for the second time.

“She alleged that the sub-inspector also threatened her not to pursue the case,” Superintendent of Police, S Anand said, quoting the complaint of the victim.

A first information report (FIR) was registered on Thursday.

The SP said the transfer of the sub-inspector had been recommended and the allegation of the woman was being probed.

The woman claimed that she first lodged an FIR on September 2, 2020 against the officer for raping her when he was posted at the Kalan police station.

The woman alleged that she came in contact with the sub-inspector during a case of dowry filed against her husband, the SP said.

A case for making the video of the incident was also registered against the officer.

Police said a final report on the FIR lodged by the woman in September was filed and the woman had gone to Shahjahanpur to file her protest petition on January 8.

In Pratapgarh, a woman officer posted in the district filed a complaint against a man, accusing him of raping and blackmailing her.

Police said on Saturday the woman officer filed a complaint with the police alleging that the man used to beat and harass her during her coaching days and he also made an obscene video and clicked pictures of her.

The officer alleged that when she got a job in a bank in Bareilly, the accused used to come there and blackmailed her.

Later on her selection in the Provincial Civil Service, she was posted in Pratapgarh in 2017 and the woman officer said the accused used to come to her officers’ colony residence there along with his two associates and tried to sexually exploit her.

The accused visited her again on December 18 last year but fled when she raised an alarm. Acting on the complaint, the police on Friday arrested the accused who hails from Basantpur in Shahjahanpur district.

Further investigations are on.