Police have registered a case against a man for allegedly kidnapping a 16-year-old girl from Maharashtra's Thane district and raping her on a train while taking her to Akola, officials said.

The girl is a resident of Adivali at Manpada in Dombivli area in Mumbai.

The 20-year-old accused allegedly took the girl by a train to Akola on June 30 and raped her enroute, senior police inspector Pandhari Kande from Government Railway Police (GRP), Kalyan, said on Monday.