A 16-year-old girl, working as a maid in the house of a local Congress leader, was allegedly raped by the leader's son in Sonitpur district of Assam, police said on Saturday.

The girl on Saturday approached Bebejia police outpost, under Tezpur Sadar police station, complaining that the 30-year-old son of her employer had raped her for the last two days, police said.

The girl lodged an FIR in the police outpost against Bhaskar Nath of Besseria alleging that she was sexually harassed and raped by the accused, they said.

The police has launched a search operation for the accused whose mother is a local Congress leader and his father is a police inspector. Bhaskar has several criminal cases registered against him in Tezpur police station for car lifting and robbery, the police said.