Sirmaur, February 28: A 14-year-old girl was raped allegedly by a villager in Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh, police said on Sunday.
A case has been registered against Sandeep Kumar under section 376 and 506 of IPC on the complaint of the mother of the victim and a manhunt had been launched to nab the culprit.
Nishchint Negi, DSP, Rajgarh said the medical examination had confirmed that the victim was raped.
In her complaint, the woman alleged that her daughter, a student of Class VII, was returning home from the village of her maternal uncle on Saturday and was passing through a forest area when she was attacked and raped by Kumar who hails from her village.
After the girl narrated the episode to her parents, they reported the matter to the police.
——–Agencies