17-yr-old rapes toddler in Maharashtra's Buldhana

Mumbai: A two-and-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a minor boy in Maharashtra.

The incident took place at Tarwadi village in Buldhana district in the jurisdiction of Borakhedi police station on Thursday afternoon, police said on Friday.

The girl was playing outside her house with her grandmother when the 17-year-old accused, who lives in the same neighbourhood, approached her and sought permission to take the child to a shop nearby to buy her chips and chocolates, police said.

The grandmother permitted the boy to take the toddler with him. However, the boy took the child in an abandoned room and raped her, before fleeing the scene, the police said.

When the child didn’t return home till evening, her parents called the boy on his mobile phone and set out to look for her. The parents then received a call from a clinic that the child had been raped and found unconscious in a room, the police added.

The girl is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Akola, and her condition is improving, the police said

Based on a complaint lodged by the child’s parents, the boy has been taken into custody.