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Second youth held in Raj for raping minor

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Press Trust of India Jaisalmer
Rajasthan police today claimed to have arrested the second accused involved in an alleged gangrape of a 12-year-old girl five days ago here.

The accused identified as Ramesh, aged around 22-years, was nabbed from Begati area last night when he was planning to escape to Punjab to evade arrest, police said.

Ramesh along with another accused Ganesh, who was arrested earlier, had allegedly gangraped the minor on March 18 at the nursery of the forest department here, police said.

The investigation in the matter is underway and police is probing all angles, they said.

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First Published: Mar 23 2015 | 5:22 PM IST

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