Rourkela: The Plant Site police arrested a 28-year-old man, Nitish Gupta, for framing the owner of a private school in a fake rape case.
Sources said the accused, Nitish Gupta, was trying to frame 45-year-old Bibhuti Gupta, who owns a private school at Bondamunda, in a rape case. He had asked a girl to lodge a complaint against the latter.
Plant Site IIC AK Pradhan said Bibhuti was arrested on February 26 based on a complaint filed by a 19-year-old girl who alleged that he raped her in the school office.
Later it came to light that Nitish had forced a male student of the school to persuade the girl to lodge the complaint.