A receipt helped the Vakola police track down the man who is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl at her home in November last year. The accused, identified as Chandrakant Nilkanth Chavan, had bought a wallet to gift the minor on the day of the incident and left it at her residence, accidentally leaving behind an evidence of his crime, police said.

On November 23, the minor, a Std VI student and a Vakola resident, was returning home from school when Chavan allegedly started following her, the police said. When she was at the doorstep, the accused tried to give her the wallet but she declined. Chavan then allegedly forced himself in and raped her, they added. The girl's widowed mother, who works as a cook, was away at work at the time.