Bantwal: Vitla police have arrested Nithin who has been accused of raping a teenaged girl in a bus to Bangalore after kidnapping her while she was on way to the Bulerikatte college.
Parents of the girl had filed missing complaint in the vitla police station. The police who took up the investigation, traced the girl at the Bangalore bus stand. During investigation she revealed that she was taken to Bangalore by him. Police said that as the girl is a minor, a case of kidnap, rape and caste abuse has been registered against the accused as per the complaint given by girl’s father.
Vitla station officer Raghavendra and constables finally nabbed the absconding here in Bangalore and has been brought to Vitla.
Nithin a resident of Neerkaje in Punacha and was working as conductor in a local bus. The girl used to travel in the same bus and they were in love. But the lover turned out to be a rapist.
He had left the job of conductor and started working in a Incense Factory since one and half month.
Recently he had come to Punacha his native place. He blackmailed the girl promising to take her along with him to Bangalore and raped her in the bus.
As the girl is only 17 year old, Nithin has been arrested and produced in the Bantwal court for kidnapping and raping her.