An auto-rickshaw driver was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a teenaged girl with an intention to rape and molest her here in Maharashtra, the police said. The victim said in her complaint that while she was on way to her school in Kalyan town last Saturday, the accused, Santosh Garud, offered her a lift in his vehicle.

When she boarded the auto-rickshaw, the accused drove the vehicle to an isolated place, an official at the Thane rural police control room said Tuesday. The girl raised an alarm and jumped out of the auto- rickshaw. In the process, she also received injuries, he said.