Hyderabad, February 19 A 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by three individuals, including two minors, here after being "threatened" with a knife, police said on Thursday.
The incident occurred in a house in the Chengicherla area on the night of February 16.
One of the accused, who has previously been involved in eight cases, including robbery and theft in different police stations, and against whom a suspect sheet was also maintained, was apprehended on February 18 along with the minor boy, who lured the victim, police said.
Another minor boy, who was involved in the crime, is still at large, and efforts are being made to apprehend him, they said.
According to police, the victim's mother lodged a complaint at the Narsingi police station on February 17, stating that her daughter had left for school on February 16 and had not returned home, following which a FIR was registered.
During an investigation, the girl was traced and rescued at Chengicherla on February 18, a police release said.
The investigation revealed that on February 7, the minor girl had gone to the Charminar area for shopping and had met a 16-year-old boy. Later, they were in contact over the phone, police said.
She again met the boy on February 16, and on the same night, the minor boy and his two friends (one of whom was a minor) took her in an auto-rickshaw to a house in Chengicherla.
They threatened her with a knife and forcibly gave her alcohol, and after that, the three of them assaulted her "physically and sexually", police added.