Ballia (UP), Nov 3 A 52-year-old man was arrested and sent to jail on Tuesday for allegedly raping his 25-year-old female relative in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district, police said.
According to the police, the woman, a resident of a village under the Bansdih police station area, had stepped out of her house on Monday morning to dispose of cow dung when the accused allegedly forcibly took her to an isolated place and raped her.
Bansdih Station House Officer (SHO) Rakesh Singh said a case was registered against the accused under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on the basis of a complaint lodged by the woman’s father.
The accused was arrested near Parvatpur village on Tuesday morning and subsequently sent to jail, Singh said.
(PTI News)
