Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 28: Police have arrested a man for raping mentally challenged girl on city outskirts.
A police spokesman said that a complaint was lodged by family of a girl, who is in her early 20s, in Harwan police station on city outskirts.. “In the complaint, the girl’s brother alleged that he did not know exactly what had happened with her, but the things she said pointed out that she was sexually assaulted,” he said.
“On this information, the medical examination of the girl was carried out and report of which confirmed rape, subsequently a case under section 366 and 376 Ranbir Penal Code was registered in police station Harwan,” the spokesman said, adding that to expedite the investigation process a special investigation team was constituted.
“After its hard efforts and through the technical inputs, the investigating team managed to zero in on the accused and arrested him in the outskirts of the city. He was identified as Yasir, a land broker, in his early 40s,” the spokesman said.
During the course of investigation the accused confessed that he lured the girl and he picked her up from Shalimar on Monday evening and took her to his apartment in the area where he sexually abused her and later dropped the girl near her residence, the police spokesman said, adding that the accused is on police remand.
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