Rajkot, Dec 11 (PTI) Police shot a rape accused in the leg, leaving him injured, after he allegedly tried to attack them during evidence collection in Gujarat's Rajkot district, officials said on Thursday.

A policeman was also injured in the incident which occurred in the Atkot area on Wednesday, they said.

Ramsingh Dadvejar, a farm labourer, had been arrested for allegedly raping a 6-year-old girl playing in a paddy field near Kanpar village in the district on December 4, a police official said.

The accused, who worked on a farm, allegedly dragged the girl into a nearby bush and raped her. He also inserted a rod into the girl's private parts and left her bleeding, he said.

The police nabbed him within hours of the incident.

He was later produced in a court which remanded him in polic

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