A 21-year-old youth was arrested on Monday night on the charge of raping a 13-year-old girl earlier in the afternoon at village Khandeswar under the Jajpur Town police station.
According to IIC of the police station AR Mohanty, the accused Kaurei Jena of Kuasapur committed the rape while the girl was returning from her school. Jena dragged her to a dilapidated building at a lonely place and raped her.
In the evening, the girl's father filed an FIR alleging that his minor daughter was raped by Jena.The police said there were injury marks on the girl's body. She was sent to the Government hospital in Jajpur town where doctors after conducting her medical examination told the police that she was raped.
The accused was produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) on Tuesday. The court rejected his bail application and remanded him to jail custody.