The second accused in the five-year-old girl's rape case in Delhi has been arrested from Bihar, police said Monday
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Pradeep is a native of Darbhanga district. He was arrested from Badhaiya area of the state's Lakhi Sarai district, confirmed Bihar DGP Abhyanand Monday morning.u00a0
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While Manoj Kumar, the prime accused was held from the state's Mujaffarpur district Saturday, as he was hiding in his in-laws' house, Pradeep was hiding at his maternal uncle's house from where the police arrested him.
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Protesters shout anti-government and anti-police slogans during a demonstration against the rape of a five-year-old girl, outside a hospital where the toddler was first admitted. Pic/AFP
The police will produce him in the local court for transit-remand, the official added.u00a0
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Manoj Kumar was sent to judicial custody Sunday till May 4 following his two-day interrogation by Delhi police. He had revealed about Pradeep's presence in the brutality with the girl child at their house in Delhi.u00a0