Five-year-old girl raped by relative

A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her 25-year-old relative at Yanadi colony, Almaspet here on Sunday. According to Two Town police, the accused took the girl, promising her that he would give her `2 to buy a chocolate, to a nearby farmland, where he committed the heinous crime. According to Two-Town police, a widow Jayamma, has been working as a cleaning woman at nearby houses to earn her livelihood and she has four children. As usual, Jayamma went to work on Sunday morning.

When Jayamma came back home, she was shocked to see her youngest daughter Venkatalakshmi bleeding. When the mother questioned the innocent girl about what had happened and why was she bleeding, Venkatalakshmi told her the  story.  On hearing about the incident, the relatives of the girl tied Nagulu to a tree and beat him up black and blue before handing him over to the police.