Police on Saturday arrested a man on the charge of raping one of the participants of a beauty pegeant eight years ago.

A team deployed from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office apprehended beauty pegeant organizer Manoj Pandey from Swoyambu of Kathmandu this afternoon.

DIG Uttam Raj Subedi of the Metropolitan Police Office, Ranipokhari said that Pandey was taken under control for interrogation.

Earlier on Wednesday, the girl came out with a series of videos on TikTok claiming that she was drugged and raped in 2014 when she was16-year-old.

People have been staging demonstrations for the past few days in various places of Kathmandu to express solidarity and to demand action against the perpetrators.

Meanwhile, the government on Friday formed a five-member probe committee to investigate the incident of a girl who was sexually abused eight years while taking part in a beauty pageant.

The committee was formed under the leadership of senior SP Basant Kunwar. 

SP Krishna Koirala, DSP Kopila Chudal, DSP Hari Basnet and Inspector Sapana Khadka are the members of the committee.