Kendrapara (Odisha):
A 32-year-old man, who was on the run for five years after allegedly raping a 22 -year-old woman in Odisha’s Kendrapara district, has been arrested, police said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team nabbed the accused from a house in Bhubaneswar on Friday night. He is a resident of a village in Rajkanika police station area in Kendrapara district.
The man was accused of rape in 2016 and had evaded arrest since then.
The survivor had delivered a girl child in 2017, Rajkanika police station Inspector Umakanta Nayak said.
The accused was remanded to judicial custody, the officer said.
He was booked under Sections 493 (cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing a belief of lawful marriage), 417 (cheating), 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, he added.
