Twenty three-year-old man had forcibly dragged a 14-year-old girl to an underconstruction site, but she managed to escape.
The man had been drinking beer when he tried to molest the girl. Cops found him lying next to an empty bottle. Representation picture
The feisty girl refused to give up her struggle to get free. She started shouting loudly for help and scared, Babu eventually loosened his grip on her and the girl ran away. Her mother, who had come home by then, realised that her daughter had not reached yet and rushed to Pant Nagar Police station to file a missing person complaint. "The girl reached home and told her father what had happened.
They again came to us and we told the girl to show us the building where the incident happened. There we found the accused sound asleep at the same spot with the empty bottle next to him," another police officer said. The accused has been arrested under IPC section 363 (kidnapping), 354A (sexual harassment), 506 (criminal intimidation) and relevant sections of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) act.
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