Jamshedpur: About 300 people, including residents of Sahara City in Mango here protested on Sunday demanding the 17-year-old rape victim, a domestic help, and her employer leave the housing complex.

They claimed the employer, businessman Nanak Chandra Seth, 44, knew about the "filthy" goings-on.

Protesters dispersed when police told them a probe was on and they should not complicate the matter.

The domestic help of businessman Seth has been staying with her employer in Sahara City for six years. Her parents live at a Potka village in East Singhbhum.

On January 18, the girl's mother lodged an FIR with Mango police alleging three men - Inderpal Singh Saini, Santosh Mahto and Shiv Kumar Mahto - had been raping the girl for over two years. The mother alleged the trio used to blackmail the girl with an obscene video clip of hers recorded when she had been raped initially by Shiv Kumar.

Police on January 19 registered a case under POCSO Act against the trio and sent the girl to MGM hospital for a test and Jamshedpur civil courts to record her statement. Though medical report proved rape, the police completed legal formalities and city SP Prabhat Kumar spoke to the girl, the trio were not arrested.

Asked, Mango OC Arun Kumar Mahatha told this paper they were not fully convinced about the girl's claims.

Seth said he lived in his flat with his wife and a six-year-old son. "The so-called protesters should have backed the victim instead," he said.