Shahdol, May 2 -- A deputy jailer has been booked for allegedly kidnapping a minor girl in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol district, a police officer said.

The deputy jailer has been identified as Vikas Singh, posted at Burhar sub-jail in the district. The case was registered against him at Kotwali police station in the district.

Superintendent of Police (SP, Shahdol), ShriRamji Shrivastava told ANI, "A 17-year-old girl lodged a police complaint in which she said that she was moving on a city road here in Shahdol at around 2 am on May 1, during which she met a man travelling in a four-wheeler. She took a lift from him to the railway station. The person took her to a hotel near the railway station. Based on the statement of the minor girl, a ca...