INDIA
The Times of India
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ MONDAY, AUGUST 08, 2005 11:24:21 PM ]
SURAT: A man who posed as ‘sadhu’ of a temple at Reliance Nagar at Katargaam in Surat was arrested by the Bhavnagar police for allegedly raping a minor girl and having sexual relationship with her elder sister. The minor subsequently got pregnant.
The accused allegedly committed the act with the consent of the girl’s parents, who were also arrested. The three were transferred to Surat city police and a case was registered at Katargaam where the incident had occurred. According to the police,Gopal Moradia,a diamond worker and father of the two girls, had left her daughters in the custody of Himmat Rajput (27), as an ‘offering’. The accused, Rajput, was a priest at Reliance Nagar then. Police said residents had recently evicted Rajput and the two girls from the colony as the suspected something fishy. The three ran away to the residence of Moradia in Bhavnagar.