19 October,2023 06:51 PM IST | Palghar | mid-day online correspondent
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The Palghar Police in Maharashtra have arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl from his neighbourhood, an official said on Thursday, according to the PTI.
The news agency on Thursday reported, Senior inspector Suresh Kadam of the Wada police station said that they are looking for another accused who is on the run.
The teenager and the accused are residents of a chawl and know one another, he said, as per the PTI.
The girl was alone at her home on Wednesday when the two accused arrived and allegedly raped her, the official said.
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On her complaint, the police registered a rape case against the two men under the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the official added.
Meanwhile, in an another incident earlier this week, the Mumbai Police on Tuesday arrested a 23-year-old man from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (earlier Aurangabad) for allegedly raping and extorting money from a woman whom he had met through a dating app, an official said, according to the PTI.
The news agency reported, the police tracked down the accused by asking the complainant to keep talking to him on mobile phone, said sub-inspector Sachin Patil of Vakola police station.
The accused is a driver and a resident of Sambhajinagar, he said, as per the PTI.
A first information report (FIR) was registered against Sheikh under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 376 (rape), 384 (extortion) and 419 (punishment for cheating by personation) after a 24-year-old woman from the city lodged a complaint against him, the officer said.
As per the woman, she met Sheikh through a dating app and travelled to Sambhajinagar to meet him after he threatened to kill himself if she did not oblige.
During their meeting, he allegedly took her to a hotel and raped her.
He then started blackmailing her and forced her to pay for two mobile phones, the woman told police, according to the PTI.
The accused's mother also allegedly threatened her.
"We asked the complainant to keep talking with the accused on phone. Then we traced his location from the mobile phone data and nabbed him from a vegetable market in Sambhajinagar early today morning," PSI Patil said, the PTI reported on Tuesday.
(with PTI inputs)
