Eight-year-old girl raped by two relatives in Telangana

An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by two of her relatives, one of whom is a minor, in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district of Telangana, police said on Monday.

Officials said the assaults occurred in separate incidents, one last week and the other on Sunday.

According to a senior police official, one of the accused, a 21-year-old man and the girl’s uncle, took her from her house to his



residence in the neighbourhood and sexually assaulted her on Sunday evening while her parents were away working in the agricultural fields.

The girl returned home in distress, and when her parents saw her crying, they asked her what had happened.

She revealed the assault and also informed them that another relative, aged 16, had committed a similar act two days earlier at their house, police said.