Police arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with the alleged rape of a minor Dalit student in Lucknow district, an official said on Sunday.

Two others escaped from a checkpoint in Harauni where a police team was stationed, the official said, even as one of them was shot in the leg.

The arrested individual has been identified as Meraj, a resident of Harauni village, and he was picked up by another police team from the Harauni railway station, the official said.

The 16-year-old Class 11 student was allegedly raped by five men here on Saturday. A case was registered under Sections 70(2) (gang rape of a woman under the age of 18) and 351(3) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and POCSO Act at the Banthara police station, the police said.

According to an official stat

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