Butwal, Oct. 4 -- Police shot and arrested a man suspected of abducting a 10-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night, officials said.

Yuvraj Tharu, 27, also known as Bishal, of Tilottama Municipality-17 in Rupandehi district, was arrested from a paddy field in Darkhasawa on Saturday night.

Police suspect that Tharu abducted the girl from her home in Darkhasawa on Wednesday night while she was asleep.

The girl was rescued unharmed on Friday night, about 40 hours after her disappearance, from a forest near Kanchhibazar in Tilottama Municipality-10. Police had been searching for Tharu on suspicion of his involvement in the abduction.

The girl was found alone in the forest, police said.

After rescuing her, police deployed ...