Metropolitan Police Sector Office, Budhanilkantha, on Sunday arrested a 65-year-old man on the charge of raping a minor girl from Budhanilkantha Municipality-4 of Kathmandu District. According to Inspector Ramesh Bahadur Pal, in-charge of Sector Office Budhanilkantha, the police arrested the man one day after the incident based on the statements from the nine-year-old victim, who is undergoing treatment at the hospital. The accused, identified as Ram Bhakta Shrestha, hails from Nuwakot and had been living in the same area as the girl. After the girl's parents found her naked and in pain, they grew suspicious but under pressure from a few locals they took the girl to the hospital without reporting the matter to the police. “Our staff at the TU Teaching Hospital learnt that the girl was raped,” Inspector Pal said. As per the statements from the girl and her parents, the man lured her with the promise of giving apple and sweets while her parents were away from their rented room, the police said. The accused is in the custody of the Metropolitan Police Circle Office, Maharajgunj, which is investigating the case. The police are awaiting the medical report. प्रहरीले बालिकालार्इ करणी गरेको आरोपमा एकजना ६५ वर्षिय बृद्धलाई पक्राउ गरेको छ। महाराजगञ्ज प्रहरीले बुढानिलकण्ठमा ९ वर्षिया बालिकालाई जर्वजस्ती करणी गरेको अरोपमा ६५ वर्षीय रामभक्त श्रेष्ठलाई पक्राउ गरेको हो। महाराजगञ्ज प्रहरी प्रमुख डिएसपी गोविन्द पुरीका अनुसार बुढानिलकण्ठमा रहेको एउटा खाजाघरमा काम गर्ने श्रेष्ठले नजिकै डेरा गरी बस्ने बालिकालाई करणी गरेको जाहेरी परेको बताए। उनका अनुसार बालबालिकाका अभिभावक अस्पताल गएको मौकमा श्रेष्ठले बालिकालाई करणी गरेका थिए। डिएसपी पुरीले बालिकालाई उपचारका लागि शिक्षण अस्पताल महाराजगञ्ज राखिएको जानकारी दिए। प्रहरीका अनुसार नुवाकोटका श्रेष्ठलाई नियन्त्रणमा लिएर थप अनुसन्धान भै रहेको छ।