Ballia (UP), Sep 20 (PTI) A fair price shop in-charge was arrested Wednesday for an alleged attempt to rape a 17-year-old girl from a village here, police said.

The girl had gone to buy ration from the government ration shop Monday afternoon, when Brij Kishor Gupta, the shop in-charge, molested her and tried to rape her, Bansdih Kotwali SHO Yogendra Singh said.

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Gupta used abusive words for the girl and threatened her to not tell anyone about the incident, the SHO said.

He said a case has been registered at the girl's complaint against Gupta under sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

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Police arrested Gupta from an intersection in Bansdih on Wednesday, the SHO said.

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