Vadodara: Minor girl raped on the pretext of religious ritual: Victim showed courage and took the help of a friend, set up a mobile phone in her room and captured the act in a video. Priest's arrest

In a bid to calm the anger of a minor girl in Vadodara and improve her temperament, her parents called a priest for a puja ritual at her home. The priest, Narendra Bhatt, took the girl to a separate room on the pretext of performing a ritual and raped her. After the first incident, the frightened minor showed courage for the second time, with the help of a friend, set up a mobile camera and captured the entire act in a video. With this strong evidence, the minor approached the police and the police immediately registered a case against the accused priest under POCSO and arrested him. The police have appealed to parents to keep in touch with their children and raise their voice against injustice to their daughters. It was the parents who asked the priest to come home and perform the ritual DCP Zone-2 Manjeeta Vanzara said that the victim had come to the police station with her friend. He came to the police and told them that he had been raped. We immediately initiated an inquiry into the matter and have been booked under sections of the POCSO Act. Preliminary investigations revealed that the girl was often angry and irritated. So her parents felt that if a priest conducted the puja ceremony, the daughter's anger would calm down and the problems of her nature would be removed. For this purpose, it was the parents who asked the priest to come home and perform the rituals. The victim was terrified when the priest raped her for the first time According to the victim, the priest had come to her house twice. The first time the priest came and raped her, the daughter was terrified. The priest used to threaten her, so that the daughter thought that if she told her parents, the parents would beat her, but the second time the daughter took the help of her friend. He somehow managed to set up a mobile camera and captured the entire incident on video. She then came to us with the help of a friend and we immediately registered a case and arrested the accused. There is a big lesson for both parents and daughters They further said that this case is a big lesson for both parents and daughters. Parents should also be told to maintain a healthy communication with their teenage children. Children should be able to tell their story to you without any hesitation. In this case too, the daughter was reluctant to tell her parents for the first time, so she had to take the help of a friend. If the parents listen to the children, then such incidents do not happen or even if they do, they stop at the beginning. The daughter objected to this and collected evidence "It has come to our notice that the priest is associated with a small temple. The girl's father knew her not directly, but through a little. The father felt that if this priest had done the work of many others, he would also calm his daughter's temperament and remove her shortcomings. Because of this superstition or blind faith, they used to call the priest to his house, and after returning home, the priest would take his daughter to a separate room. But the daughter opposed this and collected evidence.