Chennai, Aug 12 (BPNS)

Police in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu arrested a 21-year-old youth for raping and impregnating a Class XI student who is sixteen years old. According to the Tiruchi police, the youth and the girl were in love.

The youth, Prathap was a final year student of a Private college and the girl was a Class XI student in a private school. Police said that Prathap was arrested under the Prevention of Children against Sexual Offenses (Pocso) and remanded to judicial custody.

According to the police, the two were in love for the past year and Prathap used to visit the girl whenever she was alone at home and raped her several times by promising her to marry her.

After she developed some health issues, the girl’s family took her to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial government hospital (MGMGH) and doctors diagnosed her as four months pregnant.

Immediately the hospital authorities informed the police and Prathap were arrested and produced before the court. The court remanded him to judicial custody till August 24.