5-yr-old, living at shelter home, allegedly raped at school

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 12-year-old boy studying in the class sixth at a school in the city on Saturday, police said.

The girl, who has lost her mother and whose father is in jail, lives in a shelter-house for children here. City superintendent of police Indrajeet Bakalwar said the main accused was a 12 years old boy, a class sixth student of the same school where the girl was studying in the kindergarten.

Police suspected that two others were also involved, and all three were identified but nobody had been arrested yet, he said.

"The girl was brought here from Umaria in June 2016. Her father was in jail while mother had died," said the director of the shelter house.

"The girl told a woman superintendent about feeling pain when she returned from the school yesterday evening. Then an FIR was lodged with Vijay Nagar police station," he said.

The accused allegedly raped the child in the school's bathroom. Medical examination confirmed the rape, police said, adding that further investigation was on.