3-year-old kidnapped and raped by youth

MUMBAI: A 21-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a three-year-old girl at a construction site in Andheri (West) on Wednesday

MUMBAI: A 21-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping and raping a three-year-old girl at a construction site in Andheri (West) on Wednesday evening. He was traced and detained the same night.

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Police sources said the girl is now stable and out of danger while adding that, “She underwent a surgery in Cooper Hospital and is now stable, but is being provided oxygen.”

According to DN Nagar police, the incident took place between 5.30pm and 7.30pm on Wednesday after the girl had accompanied her father, a labourer, who works at a site in Bhardawadi, to his workplace.

The accused, Pratap Sahu, 21, a carpenter, worked at the same site and when no one was around he picked up the girl from the ground floor and took her all the way to the ninth floor of the building.

Sometime later, when the girl’s family frantically began looking for her, one of the labourers said he had last seen her with Sahu, who was taking her upstairs. They then went searching for her and found her on ninth floor. A police source said that the girl had been stripped and had sustained injuries on her private parts. But Sahu had managed to escape.

Sahu was produced before a sessions’ court in Dindoshi on Thursday and remanded in police custody for further probe. The girl has been treated at the Cooper hospital.