Rapist cabbie held; admits to previous crimes

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A cab driver, who was arrested on Sunday on a charge of molestation of a woman, turned out to be a rapist of a 10-year-old girl, too, according to police. 

Hyderabad: A cab driver, who was arrested on Sunday on a charge of molestation of a woman, turned out to be a rapist of a 10-year-old girl, too, according to police.

The police said Kandukuri Naga Madhu Kiran, 29, resident of Lalapet in Secunderabad, had molested a woman passenger after diverting the cab on January 5. He fled after she raised alarm. She later lodged a complaint with Kushaiguda police. She told the police that she had got into the cab at Radhika X Roads and the driver had diverted the taxi and molested her.

During the interrogation, the police claimed, it emerged that the driver had sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl also.

The Rachakonda police booked the accused under 342, 354,376 r/w 511 of IPC for molesting a woman and under 363, 376 (2)(i) of IPC and Section 4 of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act for raping the girl.

“He is a habitual offender. He is also having illicit intimacy with various women for fulfilling his sexual desires,” said Tarun Joshi, Joint Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda.

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