A caste council in Rajasthan has ordered the
parents of a six-year-old rape victim to get her married to the eight-year-old
son of the man accused of the rape, police said on Thursday.
The incident occurred at Keshavpura in Kota,
250 km from Jaipur (Jaipur is the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan).
The 40-year-old man, identified as Kailash,
raped the girl who lives in his neighbourhood about a fortnight ago, police
said.
"Kailash locked her in a room and raped
her. Instead of registering a police complaint, elders belonging to the girl's
caste called a panchayat (village council) meeting," a police official
said.
The panchayat ordered the girl's parents to
get her married to Kailash's minor son.
However, the girl's parents as well as
Kailash refused to accept the panchayat's decision.
And even as negotiations were going on
between the girls' parents and the accused, Kailash again raped the girl on
Wednesday, police said.
Some social activists came to know about
Wednesday's rape and brought the girl and her parents to Mahaveer Nagar police
station in Kota and filed a complaint.
Kailash was arrested and an investigation
launched into the allegations against the panchayat members, said circle
officer (city) Banwari Lal Meena.
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