Silchar: A three-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 20-year-old man in a tea garden in Cachar district on Wednesday, causing outrage. Police detained the accused on Saturday following a complaint by the child’s father.According to the FIR lodged by her father, the incident took place around 5pm on Wednesday. The complainant said the accused visited their house when the parents were away and lured the child with the promise of buying her chocolates. Instead, he allegedly took her to his home and later to a secluded spot in the tea garden, where he reportedly sexually assaulted her. The FIR alleged that the accused gagged the child to silence her before abandoning her.The parents spotted her walking out of the tea garden around 7pm. “She was crying and her clothes were wet when I picked her up,” the father said. The child later narrated the trauma to her parents.A case under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, has been registered.“We have detained the accused and a probe is on,” a police officer said.
