Delhi Officer Drugged Friend’s Teen Daughter, Raped Her: Police Sources

New Delhi: 

The teen girl raped multiple times by suspended senior Delhi government official Premoday Khakha was drugged before each act of sexual abuse and, on one instance, woke up to injuries on her body, police sources said Tuesday as more details emerge of this shocking crime. Police sources also said the young girl – then 14 years old – was depressed after her father died in 2020. The father died at the height of the pandemic but not due to Covid, the sources added.

According to the police, the first rape occurred on October 31, 2020. This was likely just days after the young girl – traumatised by her father’s death – was packed off to Khakha’s home in Burari in northeast Delhi by her mother – less than two weeks later. The mother said the official had convinced her she would be safe in his care.

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Police sources have said the teen was raped at least once more during her five-month stay in Burari – in February 2021. A month later she went to Jharkhand for a family function and did not return to Khakha’s home.