A six-member team of Delhi Police and Bihar Police nabbed the second accused in the Delhi child rape case, Pradeep at Barahiya in lakhisarai district past midnight on Sunday.
Superintendent of Police of lakhisarai Rajeev Mishra told The Pioneer that a six-member team of Delhi Police, comprising two Sub-Inspectors and four constables in close coordination with the district police nabbed Pradeep Kumar in lakhisarai district. The police produced the rape accused before the Chief Judicial Magistrate court of lakhisarai who remanded him on a three-days transit remand.
Pradeep has been arrested on the confessional statement of another rape accused in the same case, Manoj Kumar. He was arrested from his in-law’s house at Chiknautha village under Karja police station area of Muzaffarpur district.
Manoj Kumar had claimed that he was not alone in outraging the modesty of the five-year-old girl but his friend, Pradeep, also perpetrated sexual violence against the child.
Pradeep was staying at the house of his uncle from when he was nabbed in the joint operation of Delhi Police and Bihar Police. A large number of people also raised slogans against Pradeep during his production at the court in lakhisarai. He is a native of Ayyapur Mohalla in Sheikhpura town of Bihar.
Additional Director General of Police (Headquarters), Ravinder Kumar told mediapersons in Patna that Pradeep was working as a mason in New Delhi for the last four years. He said that the local police extended full cooperation to the visiting police team in nabbing the rape accused.