Panaji: A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a man from Bihar in Goa’s Canacona taluka, police said on Wednesday, marking the second such incident involving a minor reported in the state within a week.
A senior police officer told PTI that the incident took place at Shristhal village in Canacona late on Tuesday night.
The accused, who is in his mid-20s, was arrested soon after the incident was reported, the officer said.
The accused, a native of Bihar, had arrived in Goa two days earlier and was working at a local bakery, police said.
“We will reveal the identity of the accused later during the day as the statement of the victim girl and her parents is being recorded before an NGO,” the officer said.
This is the second reported rape incident involving a minor in Goa within a week. In the earlier incident, a three-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Mapusa town on Diwali night.
Police are yet to make a breakthrough in the Mapusa case.
Further details of the Canacona incident are awaited as the police investigation is underway.
