According to the Bandra police, the accused, one Sarju Gupta, was arrested yesterday, after the survivor's parents complained to the police that he abducted their 17-year-old daughter and sexually abused her.
In her complaint, the survivor's mother alleged that the accused knew the girl who stays in the vicinity for the last one-and-a-half years and regularly met her after promising to marry her.
"The accused had met the survivor at a marriage ceremony, after which he befriended her," a police official told PTI, adding that the girl eloped with Gupta on May 18.
However, the girl returned home yesterday.
After her mother prodded the girl, she broke down and revealed her ordeal, which led the survivor's mother to file a rape complaint against the accused, who was arrested by the police yesterday.
The accused has been booked under Sections 376 (Punishment for rape), 363 (Punishment for kidnapping) of the Indian Penal Code, besides relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.