A 14-year-old physically-challenged girl was allegedly raped by a youth of Hat Bazar here. In this connection, the victim’s brother lodged an FIR at the Jagatsinghpur police station on Wednesday.
Police arrested the accused Gurupada Manna, a married man of the locality, and conducted medical examination of the girl. The girl lives with her mother and brother at the Hat Bazar slum. Gurupada, an auto driver and father of three children too resides in the same area. On Tuesday night, he had come to the girl’s house to meet her brother.
But her mother and brother were absent. Taking opportunity of her loneness, he raped her in a nearby abandoned dwelling.