KATHMANDU: Police arrested three persons on charges of raping a minor girl at Mulpani, Kageshwori-Manohara Municipality in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

The arrestees have been identified as Rabin Itani (21) of Dhading, Dilli Ram Tharu (30) and Bikku Tharu (28) of Bardiya.

The accused trio took the 12-year-old girl to a rented room at Mulpani and raped her, the Metropolitan Crime Division informed.