Mumbai Crime Branch officers nabbed accused from his native village in Uttar Pradesh. Picture for representational purposes

After conducting a search operation for almost eight months, the officers of Crime Branch Unit XI arrested a 20-year-old youth from Maharajganj district in Uttar Pradesh, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old deaf and mute girl. The arrested accused worked as a daily wage labourer at a construction site in Borivali, where the victim often used to play.