Overview
- The girl’s family says she left home on June 21 after receiving a call from a youth identified as Armaan, whom she had met earlier in Kargil Park.
- She told police she was taken around the city, held at a house in a Muslim-majority locality for nearly a week and subjected to physical assault and branding with hot tongs.
- The victim reported she was pressured to recite religious verses, sign documents written in Urdu and eat beef and that she faced threats to her and her relatives if she refused.
- The girl escaped and returned home on Saturday, June 27, after which her father filed a complaint and police registered a case against Armaan and members of his family.
- Police arrested the main accused on Sunday and are conducting intensive interrogations while investigators, noting the pair knew each other beforehand, continue to verify the minor’s claims and gather evidence; the case could heighten communal sensitivities depending on the probe's findings.