Rape of minor: Victim's father opposes closure application

A court in Vasco today adjourned till March 30 the hearing in a 2013 rape case involving a four-year-old after her father objected to a closure application filed by CBI which failed to make a breakthrough.
Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) Durga Madkaikar granted four weeks' time to the girl's father to file his reply on the CBI plea.
The girl's father has sought the investigation papers from CBI to file his reponsse before the court.
The four-year-old girl was allegedly raped inside the toilet of her school in Vasco on January 14, 2013.
After the local police and later Crime Branch failed to crack the case, the probe was finally handed over to the central agency which interrogated 391 suspects, but still could not identify the culprits.

The Mormugao Police, which conducted the investigation initially, had registered a case under sections 447 (punishment for criminal trespass), 376 (punishment for rape), and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of the IPC. The police also slapped provisions of the Goa Children Act, 2003 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 on unknown persons.
Police had arrested the headmistress of the school for negligence. She is currently out on bail.