Mumbai, Nov. 11 -- A 22-year-old youth has been arrested from his native place in Chhattisgarh for allegedly sexually assaulting a girl student during a party last month at Madh Island in the western suburb of Malad (West), police said on Wednesday.

The accused who absconded after the crime was arrested in Chhattisgarh by a team of the Juhu police station which brought him to Mumbai after obtaining a transit remand, The accused was later produced before a Megistrate court in Mumbai which remanded him into police custody till November 13.

According to the details furnished by police, the incident took place on October 29, while the FIR was registered on November 6 after the victim approached the Juhu police along with her parents.

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