Youth held for raping minor cousin

A 20-year-old youth was arrested on Saturday on the charges of raping his eight-year-old cousin. The victim's mother, a resident of Kumbra village here, told the police that her sister's son Shyam had come to visit the family from Uttar Pradesh and committed the crime on Friday evening.

A 20-year-old youth was arrested on Saturday on the charges of raping his eight-year-old cousin. The victim's mother, a resident of Kumbra village here, told the police that her sister's son Shyam had come to visit the family from Uttar Pradesh and committed the crime on Friday evening.

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The police registered a case under Section 376 (punishment for rape) of the India Penal Code (IPC) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, against the accused. He was produced in a court, which sent him in three days' police remand.