Family members of the victim alleged that after committing the crime on January 7, the accused from the same village tried to kill her and left the place assuming that she was dead.
Doctors attending to the girl, who is in a critical condition, said, both her eyes were damaged but it is yet to be ascertained whether she has completely lost her eyesight.
The incident took place on Saturday when the 38-year-old accused barged into the victim's hut at a village in Talasari taluka while she was sleeping with her mother.
The 30-year-old man, who has a criminal background, kidnapped the girl from her house at night and took her to his residence where he allegedly raped and then killed her