Chhattisgarh: Two sisters sexually exploited by father, uncle in Durg district
Durg (PTI): Two sisters were allegedly sexually exploited by their father and uncle in Chhattisgarh's Durg district, police said on Sunday.
The police on Saturday arrested the two accused from Bhilai city, Chhavani chief superintendent of police Prabhat Kumar said.
The matter came to light when the sisters, who are in their 20s, were recently rescued from Raipur under Operation Muskan based on a missing persons complaint lodged by their father when the duo ran away from their house six years ago, he said.
According to the victims, the abuse began in August 2017, when the elder sibling, who was 16 years old at the time, was molested by her uncle at his house in the absence of her aunt, the official said.
The victim used to frequent her aunt's place as her mother was unable to care for her because of a mental ailment, he said.
The uncle then allegedly raped the girl on one occasion and continued to sexually exploit her frequently, the official said.
When the girl told her father about the abuse, the latter scolded her and started molesting her as well, he said.
The situation worsened and the victims decided to run away from home when the father started molesting his younger daughter who was 14 years old, the official said.
Based on the allegations made by the victims, a case under sections 376 (rape), 354 (assault or use of criminal force to any woman, intending to outrage her modesty) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the arrested accused, he added.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
