<p class="title">The city police have arrested a 20-year-old reality TV show contestant for allegedly raping a minor girl, a senior official said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Aditya Gupta, a dancer who had earlier participated in a reality show on television, was arrested by the Crime Branch unit IX on Tuesday in connection with the offence, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused recently approached the 17-year-old girl, a resident of suburban Andheri, on social media. The two subsequently met in Andheri on Sunday, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gupta then took the girl to his home at Nalasopara in the adjoining Palghar district and allegedly raped her after spiking her food and drink, the police official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The girl was abandoned near an eatery in Andheri in a semi-conscious state on Monday. She later called her parents and informed them about the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Based on the CCTV footage of the area and her call data records, the police arrested the accused from his residence on Tuesday evening, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The man was handed over to officials at the D N Nagar police station, where the girl's father had registered a case of kidnap on Monday after she did not return home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police booked the accused under relevant sections, including the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Further investigation was on into the case, he added.</p>
<p class="title">The city police have arrested a 20-year-old reality TV show contestant for allegedly raping a minor girl, a senior official said on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Aditya Gupta, a dancer who had earlier participated in a reality show on television, was arrested by the Crime Branch unit IX on Tuesday in connection with the offence, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The accused recently approached the 17-year-old girl, a resident of suburban Andheri, on social media. The two subsequently met in Andheri on Sunday, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Gupta then took the girl to his home at Nalasopara in the adjoining Palghar district and allegedly raped her after spiking her food and drink, the police official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The girl was abandoned near an eatery in Andheri in a semi-conscious state on Monday. She later called her parents and informed them about the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Based on the CCTV footage of the area and her call data records, the police arrested the accused from his residence on Tuesday evening, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The man was handed over to officials at the D N Nagar police station, where the girl's father had registered a case of kidnap on Monday after she did not return home.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police booked the accused under relevant sections, including the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, the official said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Further investigation was on into the case, he added.</p>