After registering an FIR against a youth for raping an 11-year old minor girl in Narki village of Vishnugarh block on last Saturday, the police have nabbed the accused today from a nearby village where he was hiding .
The Vishnugarh police presented the accused before the court from where he was sent to central jail Hazaribagh in judicial custody.
Police have sent the victim to Hazaribagh Sadar hospital for medical checkup.
The accused had threatened the girl not to disclose the matter otherwise he will kill her family members along with her. On Sunday the case was lodged in Vishnugarh police station and within 24 hours the police have arrested the accused and sent him to jail.
According to the statement made by the victim's father, the girl was going to a local haat on Saturday noon when the accused Ramvriksh Prajapati alias lallu Prajapati, who is also a resident of Narki village of Vishnugarh block, met her and offered her sweets and then told her to go behind the bushes.
After the incident in the evening, the girl returned home and slept. Early in the morning she narrated the whole story to her mother.
After that his father visited the local police station of Vishnugrah block and registered the case.