The teen girl raped multiple times by suspended senior Delhi government official Premoday Khakha was drugged before each act of sexual abuse and, on one instance, woke up to injuries on her body, police sources said Tuesday as more shocking details emerge of a crime that has rocked the nation.

Police sources also said the young girl – who was then 14 years old – was depressed after her father died in 2020. The father died at the height of the pandemic but not due to Covid, the sources said.

According to the police, the first rape occurred on October 31, 2020. This was likely just days after the young girl – traumatised by her father’s death – was packed off to Khakha’s home in Burari in northeast Delhi by her mother, who said the official had convinced her she would be safe in his care.

The girl was sent to Khakha’s home less than two weeks after her father died.

Police sources have said the teen was raped again in February 2021, a month after which she went to Jharkhand for a family function. She did not return to Khakha’s home, police sources added.

Khakha – who was Monday afternoon suspended from his position in the Delhi government’s Women and Child Development Department and arrested shortly afterwards – is not co-operating with the investigation, police sources also said.