“Pune: Siju Sheikh sexually exploits a minor, blackmails her using derogatory photos, wife Sofiana threatens with death, both booked”, Opindia, December 21, 2023:

“On Wednesday (20th December), Maharashtra Police booked an individual identified as Siju Sheikh for br sexually exploiting a minor girl and threatening her with death. The wife of the accused, identified as Sofiana Sheikh has also been booked by the Police for harassing the girl and her family and threatening them with death. The incident is said to have happened in the Somvar Peth area of Maharashtra’s Pune district.

The accused persons have been booked under sections 376(2)(n) (rape), 377, 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 8, 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

As per the FIR copy obtained by OpIndia, the victim has been facing harassment at the hands of the accused since the year 2016. The saga began when the accused and his mother shifted to an apartment owned by the victim’s father. The accused had been staying in the space on rent and eventually developed good relations with the landlord’s family including the girl…..”