Police on Saturday night arrested BJD youth leader Subash Khuntia for the alleged abduction and rape of an 11-year-old Dalit girl on February 23.
“The minor girl of a village under the Kuakhia police station was kidnapped by Khuntia in the afternoon while she was returning to her village. After kidnapping the girl, the accused confined her in a house at Kolathan village and sexually assaulted her for three days,” said Jajpur SDPO Chinmaya Nayak.
But the girl managed to flee from the house on February 26 and reached her village and revealed her ordeal to her parents, following which her father filed an FIR at the Kuakhia police station on February 27 and alleged that her daughter was forcefully kidnapped and raped by the accused, said Nayak.