India, Aug. 12 -- A man has been arrested in Odisha's Kendrapara district on charges that he raped his niece, a Class 10 student, along with four other accomplices, police said on Tuesday.

The teenager filed a rape case against her uncle on Monday evening, two days after she was raped. The girl told the police that she contemplated suicide but was encouraged to file a police complaint against her uncle by another relative.

Kendrapara superintendent of police (SP) Siddharth Kataria said the incident took place on Saturday evening when the girl was at home.

"The girl asked him to drop her at a nearby temple where some of her friends were waiting. But instead of taking her to the temple, the uncle took her to a desolate place and raped he...