Rohtak, Sept. 5 -- A 16-year-old has been apprehended for allegedly sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl from his maternal uncle's neighbourhood in Sirsa, police said on Thursday.

Komal, probationary sub-inspector at Sirsa women's police station said that the boy from Rajasthan befriended the Sirsa girl and then he raped her a few months ago.

"The boy befriended the girl when he came to his maternal uncle's home in Sirsa and later returned to Rajasthan. We had registered a complaint on August 13 and the boy was booked under Sections 65(1), 78, 351(3) of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita and Sections 4 and 12 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. We apprehended him from Delhi on Wednesday and sent him to observation h...