PRAYAGRAJ, Jan. 5 -- A 17-year-old Class 10 student, who had been accused of raping a minor disabled girl, was found hanging from a tree in a Mahua orchard outside a village in Kaushambi district on Sunday morning. This discovery came a day after a case was registered against him under rape charges and the POCSO Act.

According to police, the boy, a resident of the area under the Paschimsharira police station and a Class 10 student at an inter college in Bakarganj had been named in a complaint lodged on Saturday. The complaint was filed by the mother of a disabled minor girl living opposite his house. In her statement, the complainant alleged that the student had exploited her daughter, who has disabilities in her hands and legs, by promi...