New Delhi, February 2: Police on Wednesday arrested the father of the 14-year-old girl who claimed to have been abused by him, forcing her to run away from home and land up in sex trade.
Two others - a neighbour Pooja and her husband Sandeep Pandey - accused of pushing her into the trade, were also arrested.
The teenager had, a day earlier, told the police of an ordeal of beatings and rape, which ended in her battering the two-year-old baby left with her by Raj Kumar, the last link in the chain of abuse.
"The father has been arrested for beating the child, often forcing her to go without food and abandoning her, forcing her to run away from home,'' said Ajay Chaudhry, additional CP (southeast). The trio, who were arrested from Govindpuri and Tughlaqabad, have been booked under various sections of the IPC and Juvenile Justice Act.
Pooja, who hails from Sonagachi, Kolkata's red-light area, reportedly forced the teen into the trade after she refused to marry an old man.
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