Daijiworld Media Network - Beltangady (SP)

Beltangady, Nov 18: Police from Venoor station in the taluk have arrested Hariprasad Shetty (26) from Kunjady village near Venoor, and booked him under Protection of Children from Sexual Offices Act. Shetty has been accused ot raping a PU student, who happens to be his relative, thereby resulting in her pregnancy. The girl has since given birth to a male baby.

Reportedly, the victim, who is 17, happens to be a resident of Arambody and studying in second year pre university class. It is said that Hariprasad Shetty visited the girl, who happens to be his relative, when she was alone at home and developed physical relationship with her. In a complaint filed with the police, the girl said she was threatened with death if she revealed about this relationship to her parents. The student also said she was raped often thereafter in a hilly terrain near her home thereafter.

After she observed changes happening in her body, she was subjected to medical examination at a clinic at Moodbidri upon which she was found to be pregnant. She has since given birth to a male baby in a nursing home at Sakleshpur recently, it is gathered.

Hariprasad, it is learnt, had married about six months back.