The Kendrapada Sadar police on Sunday detained a youth on the charges molesting and attempting to rape a minor girl while she was sweeping a classroom of a private school at Bagada on Friday.
According to police, Prakash Biswal of the locality had allegedly made a rape attempt on the 17-year-old girl, a sweeper of the Prabhukrupa Vidyalaya. She had informed her mother and school authorities about the incident. later, victim’s mother had attempted to commit suicide by consuming some poisonous substance as she was forced to do a compromise by locals. She has been undergoing treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital here.