Jhansi man arrested for raping minor
Kanpur: A man was arrested by Govindnagar police near Nai Basti in the Kotwali area of Jhansi on Monday night for raping a minor girl after concealing his identity. The girl had filed a report against the accused on Sunday.
The police presented the accused in court on Tuesday, from where he was sent to jail.
According to the complaint filed by the 17-year-old girl, a BBA student, she met the accused through Instagram. They exchanged phone numbers and started chatting on WhatsApp.
Subsequently, he asked her to send her videos which he edited and started blackmailing her. On March 24, a man claiming to be a friend of accused took her to a hotel on the pretext of meeting the accused.
At the hotel, he gave the girl sedatives in a drink and assaulted her. He also made a video if the incident.
The girl said that on May 26 the accused again asked her to meet. When she refused, he came to her locality with another man in an auto on the next day. While she was on her way to college, he stopped her, slapped her multiple and forcibly took her in the auto to a hotel where he assaulted her.
Her friends saw her being taken in the auto informed her cousin. The girl later filed a complaint with the Govindnagar police.
Inspector Pradeep Singh of Govindnagar stated that the accused was arrested from his home in Jhansi in the late night hours of Monday and sent to jail on Tuesday.
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