HYDERABAD: Jeedimetla police arrested a mechanic who raped and locked up a nine-year-old girl in an almirah at his room in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar of Jeedimetla on Sunday.

Acting on a specific alert, a special police team, headed by inspector M Sudarshan, tracked down the culprit, Bablu from Bihar, near Gandhi Hospital in Musheerabad on Tuesday evening.

On interrogation, he confessed to having committed the heinous offence. Bablu had assaulted the nine-year-old girl from his neighbourhood on Sunday afternoon after luring the victim out of her house by promising to buy her a candy. Subsequently, when the worried family members came to his house in search of the victim, Bablu hid her in the almirah, locked his room and fled.

Luckily, the family members, who grew suspicious about the sudden disappearance of Bablu from the area, decided to forcibly enter the house of the mechanic and managed to rescue the victim.

The victim, who suffered bleeding injuries in the assault, has been sent for medical examination to Gandhi Hospital where doctors confirmed sexual assault. The accused, a father of a 10-day-old girl, will be produced in court on Wednesday.

