Teen girl from UP's Ballia abducted, raped for over 9 months; accused arrested
The Hindu
The girl was held captive in Varanasi
A 17-year-old girl from Narhi village in Balia was allegedly kidnapped to Varanasi and raped for over nine months by a youth, police said on Saturday.
The youth has been arrested and the girl rescued from captivity on Friday, police said.
The teenage girl belonging to a village under Narhi police station area in the district was allegedly abducted on January 16 by a youth from the neighbouring village and a case of kidnapping was registered on the complaint of the victim's father, SHO of Narhi police station Praveen Singh said.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.