Man held for rape of minor girl in Jajpur district

The police have arrested a man on charges of raping an 11-year-old girl at Bitana village under Binjharpur police station limits in Odisha's Jajpur district.
The accused, arrested last night, is from the same village, police said.
In his complaint filed with the Binjharpur police, the victim's father said the girl was raped at the man's shop at Bitana market when she had gone there to buy chocolates with her 9-year-old younger sister.
The minor girl had gone to the local market to make photocopies of her father's documents with her younger sister on Sunday afternoon. After it was over, the two sisters went to the shop to buy chocolates, police said.

"The accused took the two girls into a room in the pretext of giving them best quality chocolates and tried to molest them. The younger sister managed to come out of the room by biting the accused. The accused took advantage of it and raped the 11-year-old girl," said A.K Mohanty, Inspector-in-Charge of Binjharpur police station.
The younger sister, who managed to escape, narrated the incident to her parents. Family members accompanied by locals caught hold of the accused and rescued the victim from his room.

Aggrieved over the incident, the locals allegedly beat up the accused and ransacked his shop.

On being informed, local Alkund beat house police reached the spot and brought the accused to the Binjharpur police station. Based on the FIR filed by the father of the victim, police arrested the accused last night.
Police conducted medical examination on the victim and the accused today. Later, police forwarded the accused to the local court and he was remanded to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected, police said.