SURAT: A minor boy of Toranvera village in Navsari district was detained on Tuesday for abducting his friend’s girlfriend with an intention to rape her.
Police said that the 17-year-old boy called the 21-year-old girl on June 21 night asking her to meet him near her house as her boyfriend wanted to meet her.
He told her that her boyfriend had sent him to pick her up.
To ensure that the boy was not lying, she asked him to make her talk to her boyfriend, but the boy said that he had already left and her boyfriend’s bike’s tyre had got punctured.
The girl believed the accused and left with the minor boy on the bike.
On reaching the outskirts of the village, when the boy stopped the bike, she inquired about her boyfriend.
The boy told her that he had lied to her and forced himself upon her.
Police said that the girl was initially shocked but later she resisted and shouted for help.
As she did not succumb, the boy hit her head against a tree nearby and fled leaving her profusely bleeding.
The girl somehow managed to reach a house nearby and asked the occupants to call her parents.
She was rushed to a government hospital in Dharampur in Valsad and later registered a complaint of abduction, molestation, criminal intimidation and causing grievous hurt at Khergam police station.