Pathanamthitta: The Aranmula police on Saturday arrested a youth who set a girl on fire at Naranganama near here.
Sajin, 23, who attacked the 17-year-old girl on Friday, was arrested from a rubber plantation near his house. He has suffered nearly 50 percent burns on his body.
The girl is undergoing treatment at Kottayam Medical College Hospital with 80 percent burns.
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Sajin has been shifted to Pathanamthitta General Hospital for medical test. He attacked the girl after she refused to run away with him.
It is suspected that Sajin was in a relationship with the girl. The incident took place when the girl was alone in her house at Kallelimukku near Kadammanitta.
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