Panaji: Goa police have arrested a 19-year-old youth from Maharashtra’s Kankavli for allegedly kidnapping a minor girl from North Goa, officials said on Thursday.

Police said the victim, a native of Kankumbi in Karnataka, was residing with her aunt at Kudchirem in Bicholim town in North Goa and was studying at a higher secondary school in Sattari.

Superintendent of Police (North) Rahul Gupta said that on September 24, the girl’s brother raised an alarm after he learnt from their aunt that she had left home stating she was travelling to her native place. However, it was later confirmed that she had not reached Kankumbi, he said.

Following the complaint lodged late in the evening on September 24 at Bicholim police station, an offence of kidnapping was registered against an unidentified p

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