Migrant worker rapes 10-year-old girl, arrested

Hyderabad: A 10-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 26-year-old migrant worker at Shamshabad on Monday night while her parents slept under a flyover, RGI Airport police said. The accused was arrested by the police on Tuesday.The girl is the daughter of a migrant worker couple from Uttar Pradesh, who are rag pickers. After the day's collection, they went to sleep under the flyover opposite a hospital on the national highway.While the parents and their daughter were asleep, the 26-year-old accused approached and picked up the girl. He gagged her mouth before allegedly raping her on the other side of the flyover. The accused fled the scene after the girl raised an alarm. The parents, with the help of locals, contacted the police."We launched a search operation for the accused and caught him in a nearby area shortly after the assault," said Shamshabad ACP V Srikanth Goud. A rape case was registered against the accused, a native of Gujarat settled in Hubbali in Karnataka. He came to Shamshabad in search of work, police said.The case was registered under relevant sections of the BNS and the Pocso Act. "We have produced the accused before the court and he was sent to judicial remand," RGI Airport inspector K Balaraju said.