Goa Resort’s Room Attendant Rapes 12-Yr-Old Russian Girl In Pool, Then In Room
Mumbai: The Goa Police have arrested a man from his home town in neighbouring Karnataka for allegedly raping a 12-year-old Russian girl at a resort in Arambol in North Goa, where he worked as a room attendant.
He said Ravi Lamani (28), a married man, was arrested by a team of Pernem police on May 10 in connection with the sexual assault incident that took place on May 6 in Gadag, Karnataka. The mother of the victim had lodged a complaint on May 9, he said. Also Read: 2 Men Rape Woman At Knifepoint, Record Act On Phone Camera In Mumbai
Speaking to PTI, Pernem police station inspector Vikram Naik said that the woman and her minor daughter was sexually assaulted in the swimming pool of the resort and later inside the hotel room by the accused, who works as a room attendant at the resort.
“As per the complaint, the incident took place when the girl’s mother had gone out to fetch some necessary items from a nearby market in Arambol, leaving her daughter behind in the swimming pool,” he said.
Naik said the accused had fled after the incident.
“But within 24 hours of receiving the complaint, the accused was arrested after being traced in Gadag,” he said.
Naik said Lamani has been booked under sections 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), section 8 of the Goa Children’s Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act.
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