PUNE: The Yerawada police have booked a man with criminal records on the charge of molesting and stalking a 16-year-old girl since June and threatening to throw acid on her face if she turned down his marriage proposal.
“The girl was initiatially scared to share the incident with her parents. It was on September 1 when she told her mother that that man had threatened to disfigure her face with acid if she did not marry him on completing 18 years of age,” sub-inspector Swati Thakur said on Saturday.
The girl has never gone to school and her parents are into small-time jobs. She girl registered an FIR relating to molestation, stalking and criminal intimidation under the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and the police booked the man on Friday.
The FIR stated that the man had dropped a paper chit at the girl’s residence, mentioning his cellnumber and asking her to contact him. But as she refused to do so, he proposed to marry the girls and started stalking her, the FIR added.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
