The Awadhpuri police have nabbed a 21-year-old engineering student for molesting a Class IX girl student at Tagore Nagar on Wednesday.
Police said that the accused Gokul Khapre was nabbed for molesting a 13-year-old girl inside bathroom at his residence. The victim was rescued by her mother when she reached the spot in search for her daughter. The accused took the victim in the bathroom where he tried to sexually assault her.
The Investigating Officer ASI RP Bharti said that the victim returned from coaching class and later went outside to collect notes from her friend but when not returned for around an hour her mother and her neighbor went to check the whereabouts of the victim and later rescued her from bathroom of Gokul’s rented room.
In the process of searching the victim her mother asked about the victim with the accused but he refused which made them suspicious over the accused and during the search when they reached Gokul’s house victim raised alarm and she was rescued.
The victim told that the accused took her forcefully inside his room and when she resisted sexual assault she was locked in the bathroom by the accused and threatened her of life and to keep mum and stay inside the bathroom.
The victim is a resident of Pandurna in Chhindwara district and is pursing engineering from a private college. The police have registered a case under sections 354, 342, 506 of IPC and Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Act -2012.