26-year-old boy arrested on rape case

KATHMANDU: Yaduraj Basnet, 26, of Hatuwagadhi Rural Municipality-1, was arrested on the charge of raping a 16-year-old girl on Sunday afternoon.

Basnet was arrested by police from District Police Office Bhojpur on the basis of a complaint that he raped the girl in a tractor number 5 or 6580 at a place called Chandanda on the unpaved road connecting Ghodetar and Purnebazar last Friday night.

The police are conducting necessary investigations in this regard.