Man held for raping teenager

The HSR Layout police on Saturday arrested a car driver on charges of raping a minor girl. The incident took place in Olageranahalli in Mulbagal on Friday.

According to the police, the victim, a 17-year-old PUC student in Chikkaballapur, was sexually assaulted by Nagarjun, who had promised to marry her.

Nagarjun used to frequent her college in Chikkaballapur to meet another friend of his, who also studied there. His friend introduced the victim to Nagarjun and the two exchanged their mobile phone numbers. Their friendship grew into `love’ as they kept in touch with each other over phone. Nagarjun then proposed to her and told her he would introduce her to his parents, said the police.

On July 22, he took her to his house in Mulbagal and raped her when nobody was there, police said. He also warned her not to talk about the incident to anyone. She managed to call her parents, who live in HSR Layout, and narrated the incident. The parents approached the police and filed a complaint in which they stated that they did not know from where their daughter contacted them. The police tracked the mobile tower location to Olageranahalli. On Saturday, the police went to Olageranahalli and arrested the accused and rescued the victim. Nagarjun was sent to judicial custody.