Kozhikode: The police here on Saturday arrested a youth for allegedly abducting and raping a college girl. The accused is identified as Junaid (26) from Kunduthodu. The girl who went missing on Wednesday was found naked and tied up inside a house at Thottilpalam on Thursday.
The accused who went absconding was nabbed from Vadakara. Police had issued a lookout notice against Junaid after finding the girl.
Meanwhile, the girl had told police that Junaid captured her nude video after threatening her following the sexual assault.
Police slapped charges including abduction, rape, and criminal intimidation against the accused based on the girl's statement.
Police had found the girl, pursuing her degree course at a Kozhikode college, allegedly kidnapped by the accused, her 'friend', 'tied up' and 'undressed' at Junaid's' house in Kunduthode inThottilpalam near Kuttiady.
Police rescued her from the house after being alerted by another friend of hers, whom she rang up and requested help from to escape the detention.
Police traced the student's location through her mobile number; they forcefully opened the door of the building on Thursday afternoon.
As soon as the cops arrived, the accused managed to flee from the scene. Police seized 5.47 grams of MDMA from his house.
The accused living alone at the house suspected as a drug addict. His parents are living abroad, said a source.
The girl, according to the police, arrived at the house of Junaid from her college hostel without her parents' or the hostel authority's knowledge on Wednesday.
Police had sent her to the government medical college for a medical check-up after rescuing her from the house.
She was trying to get in touch with her friend while the cops were trying to trace her. The cops were acting upon the hostel authorities' complaint after she was allegedly taken from the hostel on Wednesday by the accused.
A person close to the girl revealed to Onmanorama that the accused had hurled stones at the girl's house as an act of 'revenge' against her family members who were opposed to their 'relationship'.
The accused apparently threw stones at the house of a social worker too in the area to draw attention away from the issue, the source added.
