Maharashtra: 23-year-old man nabbed from UP for rape of 9-year-old girl

A 23yearold man was nabbed from Uttar Pradesh for rape of a 9yearold girl in Palghar the police said on Monday according to the PTIThe news agency reported the Palghar Police on Saturday apprehended the suspect with the help of the local special task force in Varanasi of Uttar Pradesh senior inspector Pramod Badakh said as per the PTIThe accused had allegedly waylaid the girl who was returning home from a grocery store on the night of November 14 He dragged the child to an isolated place where raped her and fled the scene he said the PTI reportedThe police registered an offence under sections 376 AB rape on woman under 12 years of age 354 assault or use of criminal force to a woman and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences POCSO Act the official saidThe crime branch formed three teams to track down the accused and worked on technical and intelligence inputs he saidThe accused was brought to Nalasopara on a transit remand and produced before a local magistrate who sent him to police custody till November 30 the official saidMeanwhile in an another incident last week in Maharashtras Buldhana district a toddler was allegedly sexually assaulted The police have detailed a 17yearold suspect in connection with the matter a police official said on Friday reported the PTIAccording to the PTI a twoandhalfyearold girl was allegedly raped by a minor boy at a village in Buldhana district police said on FridayThe police reportedly detained the 17yearold boy after the incident that occurred under the jurisdiction of Borakhedi police station on Thursday afternoon an official saidThe girl was playing outside her house with her grandmother when the suspect who lives in the same neighbourhood approached her and sought permission to take the child to a shop nearby to buy her chips and chocolates he said as per the PTIThe grandmother reportedly permitted the boy to take the toddler with himHowever on the way the boy saw an abandoned room where he allegedly took the child and raped her He later fled away from the crime scene the official said according to the news agencyWhen the child failed to return home till evening her parents called the boy on his mobile phone and then set out to look for the boy and the child he saidThe parents then received a call from a clinic stating that the child had been allegedly raped and was found in an unconscious state in a room Some locals had brought her to the facility The parents of the child later rushed to the hospital later the official had reportedly saidwith PTI inputs