NOB- Delhi news: A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 30-year-old rickshaw puller who lives near her house in outer Delhi’s Ranhola on at least two occasions, police said on 12.08.2025. The accused, identified as Om Prakash, has been arrested. A police officer aware of the matter said the incident was reported on 11.08.2025 by the girl’s parents who said that their daughter, in class 7, went missing on 10.08.2025. “They began looking for her and finally, after about four hour, they found her distressed near the house,” the officer said. When they asked her where she had been, she kept quiet at first but later confided in her parents that Om Prakash had taken her to a secluded place on 10.08.2025 afternoon and raped her, police said. “She also told her parents that this was not the first time that he sexually assaulted her. In July 2025 too, he had raped her and threatened her to not inform anyone about it,” the officer said. Based on the parent’s complaint, a case of rape was registered and investigation was taken up. “The accused was arrested and sent to judicial custody the same day,” the officer said.