Four days after a 30-year-old security guard abducted a nine-year-old girl and raped her in a municipal garden, Charkop police managed to nab him from Rajkot on Monday. The accused had fled the city after committing the heinous crime. The accused has been identified as Dhaveer Thapa.

According to the police, Thapa had come to meet survivor’s father on March 6, as they knew each other. After spending some time at the house, the accused asked the minor if she wanted to go to a nearby garden with him. The girl’s father was not present while the mother was occupied with work when he lured her. Thapa took the girl to a municipal garden, sector 3 in Charkop and under the cover of darkness raped the girl, said the police. He then dropped her at the house and fled.