India, Aug. 6 -- A 20-year-old student of Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Mumbai was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday by the Nagpur police for allegedly kidnapping, sexually assaulting and repeatedly knifing a Class 12 girl whom he had befriended on Instagram.

The accused who lives in Thane is the son of a prominent doctor couple and the nephew of a senior IPS officer. He befriended the girl, the daughter of a well-placed revenue officer, in May last year on Instagram when she was just 16. He had created a fake account identifying himself as Akash Mehra, which is not his real name.

On Sunday, when she had not returned home for nearly 24 hours and with her phone switched off, her concerned parents approached the poli...