SAPTARI: Police have arrested a youth on the charge of raping a 14-year-old girl in the district.
Saptari Police on Sunday arrested 37-year-old Shiva Shankar Mandal of Koiladi rural municipality for raping the girl after one year.
Mandal had raped the girl in a room of Laxmi Ballav Narshing Secondary School on July 13, 2019.
According to police, DSP Tilak Bharati of Saptari District Police Office, Mandal had advanced to the girl in a state of unconsciousness. He had made her unconscious by providing a drink laced with sedatives, said Bharati.
The accused is the office assistant.
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