Berhampur: Nimakhandi police here detained Monday a minor boy studying in Plus-II on charges of raping his female classmate. The accused is a student of a private college in the city. Police registered a case and produced the accused before a Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) which heard the case and remanded him to a probation home. Police recorded the statement of the survivor under Section-164 of CrPC and conducted a medical examination of the two.
On being directed by the Juvenile Justice Board, police produced the survivor before the child welfare committee and later handed her over to her father. The incident came to light after the father of the girl lodged a complaint at the Nimakhandi police station alleging that the accused had kidnapped his daughter April 20. Police launched a probe and found that the accused had taken the victim to a house in Visakhapatnam where he raped her. Police managed to trace the girl and rescued her while detaining the boy