Bantwal, March 12: Cops have arrested Iqbal alias Ikku, who had kidnapped a minor girl from Karopady, Kanyana near Vittal here.
It is learnt that, Iqbal had abducted the girl student of a college who was a minor, and alter taken her to Thiruvananthapuram. He had stayed there in a hotel with this girl, and during their stay there, it is alleged that he also raped her.
It is gathered that, Iqbal had absconded, leaving the girl alone, when police raided the hotel room where the couple had stayed.
The girl, who had left home for her college, had not returned home in the evening. Her parents had initially filed a missing case. The case was converted into abduction after it was apparent that the girl, who was a minor, was accompanied by a youth. The cops, on learning about the presence of the boy and girl from their jurisdiction at a hotel in Thiruvananthapuram, had rushed there who could find the girl there all alone and youth had absconded.
Cops who brought the minor girl here on Monday, obtained statement from the girl and later sent the girl with her parents.
The cops after receiving information that Iqbal was hiding in an area near his home in Kanyana, raided the spot and arrested him on Wednesday March 11th.
Iqbal is booked under POSCO Act. He is produced in court.
