On Thursday, the Old Goa Police arrested a man, named Mohammed Rafik Patel, for allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl. Mohammed Rafik Patel, 31, is a resident of Curca, Tiswadi and hails from Haveri in Karnataka.

The original complaint was forwarded by police station from south Goa wherein during investigation of a kidnapping crime the victim girl had stated that in the month of November 2018 the accused person had called her at his residence at Kalapur, Tiswadi and had forceful sexual intercourse with her, due to which she is currently pregnant and after knowing about the pregnancy the accused stopped being in contact with her.