Police in Parsa district on Friday arrested a youth on the charge of raping a 17-year-old girl.
The arrested has been identified as Ramesh Hajara Paswan (30) of Behara Tole in Jitpur Simara Sub-metropolitan City-10 in Bara district.
An FIR was lodged with Parsa District Police Office (DPO) on March 5 that said Paswan had repeatedly raped the 17-year-old girl in a Birgunj-based lodge and impregnated her.
According to police, the youth had promised to marry the teenager before taking her to the lodge where he repeatedly raped her about two weeks ago.
Acting on the complaint, a team of police personnel deployed from the DPO detained the accused youth.
Meanwhile, investigation into the case is underway as the District Court, Parsa has granted seven-day in police custody for the investigation.
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