Dhaka, April 18 -- Police have arrested a 60-year-old man for allegedly raping a fourth-grader and trying to sexually abuse another minor in Naogaon's Badalgachi Upazila.

Abdus Sattar was apprehended around 11am on Saturday, said the district's Superintendent of Police (SP) Mohammad Tarequl Islam.

The father of the "rape victim" filed a case against Sattar after hospitalising her daughter.

Citing family members and details of the case, Tarequl said the 10-year-old "rape victim's" father had gone to another district for work on Apr 11, and her mother was away from home that afternoon when the rape occurred.

Sattar had gone to the residence and tricked the girl and her playmate, 8, into an abandoned hut, luring them with biscuits and ic...