Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru (SP)
Mangaluru, Aug 13: Policemen belonging to Bajpe station arrested a person, who has been accused of fathering a child through illicit relationship. Allegedly, the youth promised the girl to marry her and became intimate on the basis of this promise. The arrest was made on Wednesday August 12.
The arrested person is Ajit Shetty residing near Pakshikere near Haleangady. It is said that he had developed physical relationship with the complainant since September 2014. The girl became pregnant and eventually gave birth to a baby boy in May this year. On a complaint filed by the girl, case under section 376 (rape) and cheating after extending promise of marriage (section 420), had been registered in Bajpe police station.
The youth who vehemently denied initially having fathered the child, later went underground, as he feared that he would be arrested. The Bajpe police, through an operation, arrested Shetty on Wednesday and produced him in court, after which he was remanded to judicial custody.