New Delhi: A 38-year-old tailor from Delhi, a father of five has allegedly confessed to assaulting hundreds of schoolgirls over a period of 14 years for sexual satisfaction.
Sunil Rastogi was arrested on Saturday after police probing into sexual assault on three school girls joined the dots that led to Rastogi.
The alleged pedophile traveled in and out of Delhi and allegedly lured girls to deserted places after telling them he had to send clothes for their parents.
The police sources revealed that the accused targeted girls between seven to ten years.
“Whenever he would find any girl going home from school, he used to mislead her on the pretext that he had to give clothes to her parents and take her to an isolated place,” NDTV quoted senior police officer Omvir Singh.
Rastogi has three daughters and two sons. The daughters are being counseled and the police are trying to find out whether they were targeted too. In 2004, he was beaten and hounded out of his home in east Delhi after he allegedly attacked a neighbour’s daughter. He used to frequently visit the area for work.
His luck ran out after two families reported to the police on January 10 that their daughters, 9 and 10, were kidnapped and attacked.
The children told their parents that a man took them to a half-constructed building and ran away when they screamed.
A rape case had also been filed on December 13, based on the statement of another little girl.
The police detected a pattern and suspected that the same man was involved. CCTV footage from cameras near the kidnappings revealed Rastogi to the police.
Rastogi is from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh and came to Delhi in 1990 with his family.
