Overview
- Sachin GIDC police arrested lawyer Pranayraj Ranvir on Tuesday after the girl's parents filed a complaint alleging he lured their 13-year-old to his home and sexually assaulted her.
- Officers say Ranvir was booked on multiple counts including rape, aggravated penetrative sexual assault and allied offences under the POCSO Act, plus charges for employing a child and criminal intimidation.
- Police allege the lawyer offered the girl domestic or office work for a monthly wage in lieu of legal fees and threatened to harm the family's ongoing kidnapping-rape case if she reported the abuse.
- Medical examinations of the victim and the accused were completed at Surat New Civil Hospital and investigators are seizing evidence and verifying the sequence of events as the probe continues.
- The allegation is separate from the earlier kidnapping-rape case in which two men were arrested in November 2025, and police records show the accused lawyer has several prior criminal FIRs that investigators are reviewing.