JAMSHEDPUR, May 28 -- The police launched a hunt for a 45-year-old health department employee on charges of raping a 14-year-old girl in his neighbourhood in Makkhan Mohalla in Kitadih under Parsudih police station area in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur city, police said on Wednesday.

"Our teams are continuously in the lookout for the absconding accused. The accused will be arrested today or by tomorrow," Lalit Meena, Jamshedpur city Superintendent of Police (SP), told the media on Wednesday.

Parsudih police later took the victim for medical tests on Wednesday morning.

The accused and the victim are neighbours in the same rented house. The accused allegedly took the girl to his room around 12 am on Tuesday night and raped her. He threatened he...