CHANDIGARH: A youth has been arrested in a village of
Rewari district for allegedly kidnapping a five-year-old girl and abusing her sexually, police said on Sunday.
The five-year-old was playing outside her house with two other girls on Friday evening when the accused, said to be in his 20s, parked his car near them, asked the girl's two friends to leave, and then took her with him on the pretext of buying her a packet of potato chips.
The accused was remanded to judicial custody after he was produced before a court on Saturday. He has been charged under sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The girl's father is in a paramilitary force and is posted in Rajasthan. His wife is living in the village with the entire family. As soon as the accused took the minor with him, the girl's friends went inside the house and informed her mother, following which a search was launched to look for the accused and the girl.
As soon as the car was spotted, the man was caught and the girl rescued. The villagers thrashed the accused and handed him over to the police.
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