Silchar, Sep 21 : A 19-year-old youth was arrested in Assam’s Cachar district on Wednesday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a minor girl, police said.
A senior police officer said that the accused, identified as Suhel Ahmed Kazi, kidnapped the minor girl in an auto rickshaw, forcefully took her to a remote forest, and raped her, before fleeing the spot.
The girl later somehow managed to reach home and narrated the incident to her parents.A case was filed at the Udharbond police station.
Additional Superintendent of Cachar, Subrata Sen informed that a case has been registered under section 365/376 of the IPC and section 4 of the POCSO Act on Monday.
The police launched an operation to nab the accused.
Kazi was arrested from a hide-out and later produced before the court.
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