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Kolkata: Astrologer booked for raping school student

| | Sep 04, 2016, at 01:39 am
Kolkata, Sept 3 (IBNS): The Police on Friday night arrested an astrologer from Pramod Garh area under New Town Police Station limits in Kolkata for allegedly raping a girl, reports said.

According to reports, a class-IX student visited the astrologer's place on Friday evening and she was allegedly raped by the man there.

Locals, however, caught the accused astrologer, Bharat Chandra Mondal, and handed him over to the police.

He was produced in Barasat Court on Saturday and sent to police custody till Sept 8.

Police have started investigation into the matter.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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