Indore (Madhya Pradesh): Kanadiya police rescued a missing minor girl and arrested a youth for abducting and raping her on pretext of marriage, police said on Wednesday.
According to the police, the girl was missing for the last 14 months and her mother had lodged a complaint at Kanadiya police station. The police managed to rescue the girl on December 2 and arrested the accused Arjun alias Hindu Dewda of Sanwer.
The girl told police that she befriended Arjun while working at a field last year when the accused asked her to travel with him to Gujarat. He took her to Gujarat and when the girl told him that she wanted to return home, he told her that he would drop her in the next few days. During that time, the accused made physical contact with the girl on multiple occasions after promising her of marriage.
Later, the police received information about the girl’s whereabouts and managed to rescue her. The police sent the accused to jail after presenting him before the court. In another incident, the Kanadiya police rescued a missing minor girl within 48 hours from Mathura. The girl had left her home near the GRP police line without informing anyone a few days ago.
