Telangana: Man held for raping daughters

Hyderabad: A 42-year-old cab driver who sexually assaulted his minor daughters was arrested on Friday. Police said that Kukutla Srinivas, who was working with Uber, assaulted his daughters while they were asleep, and threatened them not to reveal it to their mother.

The mother, who is a movie artiste and a tailor, lodged a complaint with Rajendranagar police stating that her husband had sexually assaulted her daughters aged 16 and 15. She said she married Srinivas in 1998, and later came to know that he was already married to another woman and has a son. When she asked him about it, he quarrelled with her and was staying apart since five years.

Recently, he started coming home again and used to stay for two to three days every time. She came to know from her younger daughter that while the girls were sleeping, he used to insert his hands into their privates. Police registered a case of rape and as per provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Srinivas was arrested on Friday.