ISLAMABAD, March 31: A court remanded a rape accused into police custody for three days, police said here on Friday. A 14-year-old girl, in a compliant lodged with the Shalimar police, had stated that Yasir Mehmood along with his two accomplices abducted her from her house at Karpa on March 24.

She said the accused kept her in a house for four days and raped her several times.

However, she managed to escape from the house when the accused left her in unconscious condition on March 28. The police picked up the accused after lodging an FIR against him and his two accomplice.

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