India News | Odisha: Rape Accused Fugitive Arrested After 5 Years
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. A 32-year-old man, who was on the run for five years after allegedly raping a 22 -year-old woman in Odisha's Kendrapara district, has been arrested, police said on Saturday.
Kendrapara (Odisha), Jul 17 (PTI) A 32-year-old man, who was on the run for five years after allegedly raping a 22 -year-old woman in Odisha's Kendrapara district, has been arrested, police said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team nabbed the accused from a house in Bhubaneswar on Friday night. He is a resident of a village in Rajkanika police station area in Kendrapara district.
The man was accused of rape in 2016 and had evaded arrest since then.
The survivor had delivered a girl child in 2017, Rajkanika police station Inspector Umakanta Nayak said.
The accused was remanded to judicial custody, the officer said.
He was booked under Sections 493 (cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage), 417 (cheating), 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, he added.
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