A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a minor girl for 20 days after taking her to Delhi, police said on Friday.
On August 17, accused Kundan Kumar Paswan, a resident of Majhauli village, kidnapped a 13-year-old girl from a village in the Bansdih Road police station area, they said.
The minor, after being rescued on Thursday, told police that Paswan took her to Delhi and raped her for 20 days, SHO Raj Kapoor Singh said.
After the girl's disappearance, her mother filed a complaint, and a case under sections 363 (kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping, abducting, or inducing a woman to compel her for marriage) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against Kundan, police said.
Following the victim's statement, Section 376 (3) (rape on a woman under sixteen years of age) of the IPC and sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act were added to the FIR, the SHO said.
Kundan was arrested at the Shankarpur trisection on Friday, he said.
Featured Video Of The Day
1 Devotee Dies Due To Suffocation At Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra In Odishi's Puri
13 Killed In Rain-Related Incidents In Uttar Pradesh In Last 24 Hours 17-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped, Gang-Raped In Moving Car In Rajasthan: Cops How A Buffalo Solved A Problem That A Village Panchayat Couldn't In UP 4 Terrorists Killed In J&K Hid In 'Bunker' With Entry From Fake Cupboard Sena Leader Arrested After Son Kills Mumbai Woman In BMW Crash 'West Watching With Jealousy': Kremlin On PM Modi's Russia Visit Writer Alice Munro's Daughter Says Stepdad Assaulted Her, And She Knew Disaster Averted But Emmanuel Macron Still Faces Big Challenge Ahead Kamala Harris' Husband Tests Positive For Covid. She Is Negative Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.