The police on Wednesday night arrested two teenagers on the charge of outraging the modesty of a 12-year-old girl at village Kolasahi under the Badachana police station in Jajpur district.
The boys molested the girl while she was grazing cattle in the village field on Wednesday afternoon.
The girl revealed the incident to her mother, after which her father filed an FIR at the police station.
According to Badachana police station IIC Ranjit Kumar Sahoo, the police booked the minor boys under Section 354 of IPC.
Both were produced in the District Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) at Jajpur town and the JJB released them on bail.