<p>A man from Haveri was arrested on Thursday for raping a minor girl, near St. Cruz suburb of Panaji, police said.</p>.<p>The accused Mohammad Rafil Patel was a friend of the 17-year-old victim’s family. He had allegedly raped the victim in November last year.</p>.<p>“The victim filed a First Information Report at the Old Goa police station after she discovered that she was pregnant,” police inspector in-charge of the Old Goa police station Jivba Dalvi told <span class="italic">DH</span>.</p>.<p>Patel (31) has been arrested and booked under IPC Section 376 of Goa Children’s Act and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.</p>
<p>A man from Haveri was arrested on Thursday for raping a minor girl, near St. Cruz suburb of Panaji, police said.</p>.<p>The accused Mohammad Rafil Patel was a friend of the 17-year-old victim’s family. He had allegedly raped the victim in November last year.</p>.<p>“The victim filed a First Information Report at the Old Goa police station after she discovered that she was pregnant,” police inspector in-charge of the Old Goa police station Jivba Dalvi told <span class="italic">DH</span>.</p>.<p>Patel (31) has been arrested and booked under IPC Section 376 of Goa Children’s Act and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.</p>
