Youth held for ‘kidnapping, raping' teen

Ludhiana: A youth was Friday arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a girl, a minor, of his locality.
The girl's mother told police that her daughter went to a grocery store to get some ration on June 9, but did not return home.
They frantically searched for her, but to no avail. She came back home the next morning and narrated her ordeal, the mother said.
Following a complaint from the mother of the girl, a 16-year-old, police lodged an FIR against the accused. Charges under BNS sections 137 (2) (kidnapping), 96 (procuration of child), 64 (punishment for rape) of BNS and Section 4 of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act have been pressed against him. tnn
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