HARIDWAR: Police have arrested a 28-year-old man for raping a minor while she was on her way back home from tuition on October 18.
The accused, Ramjani, a resident of Jamalpur Kalan, who works in a private company, had initially planned to rob someone but when that did not happen, he targeted the girl.
SSI, Jawalapur police station, Nitesh Sharma, told TOI, “The accused took the girl to a vacant plot, where he raped her. Police teams quizzed around 400 persons on the basis of CCTV camera grabs and finally tracked down the accused, who was produced before the court, which sent him to judicial custody.”
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
