PHAGWARA: The Lohian Khas police have booked a resident on the charge of raping a minor girl.
The investigating officer (IO), Lady Inspector Chanchal, said that the accused has been identified as Sagar a resident of Chacha colony, Lohian Khas.
The mother of the victim complained to the police that her daughter complained of stomach pain on November 20 evening, and she gave her medicine and doubted her daughter.
The Complainant said she questioned her daughter strictly who told her that she had been having friendly relations with the accused for the last one and a half years. She said that the accused seduced her minor daughter in April and had a physical relationship with her and she became pregnant.
IO said a case under section 65(1) (rape on a woman under sixteen years) of the BNS and 6 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act has been registered against the accused. No arrest has been made.