Meghalaya High Court grants bail to former MLA accused of raping minor

SHILLONG: The Meghalaya High Court on Thursday granted bail to former MLA Julius Kitbok Dorphang, who was reportedly arrested for raping a 14-year minor girl in 2017.

According to reports, a single bench of the high court comprising justice Justice Wanlura Diengdoh granted bail to the former Mawhati MLA on "medical ground".

Dorphang was booked under the POCSO Act in 2017 for alleged sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl who was rescued from a sex racket.

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The minor girl, reportedly identified the former MLA in a photograph as one of the accused who allegedly raped her several times.

The Court order is however awaited.

He was arrested from an inter-state bus terminus (ISBT) at Gorchuk in Assam after fleeing for 11 days following the FIR filed by the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR).

Further details awaited.

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