CHAKWAL, Dec 7: A 54 year-old man was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting and making nude photographs of an eleven-year-old girl in Kallar Kahar, police sources said on Friday.

However, rape was not confirmed in the medical report but the accused has confessed that he attempted to rape the girl and took obscene photographs.

The father of the girl told police that her daughter had been sexually assaulted by the accused who happens to be a close relative of the victim.

The accused used to run the shop of his cousin in his absence.

The minor girl used to buy candies from the shop. A month ago when she went to the shop the real owner of shop was not there and the accused was running the shop.

He gave some candies and other food items to little girl free of cost just to seduce her. He took the girl to an adjacent room where he ordered her to put off her clothes and threatened her of dire consequences if she did not obey her order.

He made nude pictures of the girl through his mobile phone and started blackmailing her.

“He kept on assaulting my niece throughout last one month. He made a dozen of nude pictures and threatened her that if she did not obey her order he would show her nude pictures to her parents”, the uncle of the victim told Dawn.

“The rape was not confirmed in medical report but an attempt to rape the girl was made”, Investigation Officer Khawar Saeed told Dawn.

“We have arrested the accused who has admitted that he took nude pictures of the girl and tried to rape her,” the IO maintained.

Meanwhile, another teenage girl was raped in Tatral village located in Saddar Police Station. When the 14-year-old girl went to answer the call of nature in the morning she was dragged by the accused to nearby bushes and raped her. The medical report has confirmed that the girl was raped. “We have arrested the accused who was sent to judicial lockup by the court”, Investigation Officer Mohammad Ashraf told Dawn.