Gurugram, May 5: A first-year student of an Ayurvedic college in Haryana's Yamunanagar was abducted and allegedly sexually assaulted in Gurugram for four days by a man known to her, police said on Saturday.

The victim's family hails from Faridabad and they are currently living in Gurugram, while the girl was staying in a college hostel in Yamunanagar.

According to the police, the victim came in contact with Dharmender, a.k.a Dhaman, two months ago in Gurugram and they were in touch on the phone.

The accused called her on April 13 and citing an incident, threatened he would defame her in the college. The girl asked the accused to come to Yamunanagar bus stand for a "talk" police.

The victim said as she reached the bus stand, she was pushed into an SUV and raped in a Gurugram PG facility located in the Naharpur Rupa area on the Delhi-Gurugram Expressway.

"I was dropped near my college on April 17. I narrated the whole story to my mother after the accused started blackmailing me," the victim said in her complaint.

Gurugram Police PRO Ravinder Kumar said that a case had been registered and a manhunt has been launched for the accused.

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Chennai, Nov 2: A 27-year-old native of Thiruvarur district, who had arrived from Sharjah, has tested negative for monkey pox, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said here on Saturday.

Test results from both the King Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research here and the Pune-based National Institute of Virology have show negative for Mpox virus, the minister said.

Subramanian had earlier in the day told reporters that result was awaited for the sample that had been dispatched to the NIV while test result from King Institute ruled out monkey pox.

On October 31, upon his arrival at Tiruchirappalli airport from the UAE, during screening, the young man displayed fever symptoms and small skin lesions. Hence, he was taken to a government hospital.

Subramanian said the returnee had been frightened and hence left for his hometown of Valangaiman in Thiruvarur district. "This treatment is for his good and in order to prevent the spread of infection," the minister said.

Hence, he was brought back to the hospital by the authorities with police help and he has been receiving good treatment at the state-run facility. Further, Subramanian said that the test result from the government-run King Institute indicated Chickenpox and marked negative for presence of Mpox.

Screening at airports for passengers arriving from foreign countries is going on continuously in the state and international airports have dedicated isolated rooms.

Special wards are ready in government medical college hospitals, including those in Chennai and Tiruchirappalli, to provide treatment for Mpox, in case anyone tests positive for the infection, the minister added.