India, March 7 -- A 26-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly abducting and raping a four-and-a-half-year-old girl in Assam's Cachar district, police said on Saturday.

As per the First Information Report (FIR) lodged by the minor's family members on Friday, the accused, who was known to them, entered their house around 5 pm on Wednesday in the absence of the senior members of the family.

The girl was playing alone when he lured her by promising to buy her chocolate from a shop and took her to his house. "When she didn't return for a long time, we started searching and found her near a tea garden around 7 pm," the father said.

"My daughter told me that the accused had first taken her to his house and behaved improperly with h...