India, May 13 -- A 39-year-old man was arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping an eight-year-old girl in Nuh, police said on Tuesday. The victim sustained injuries and was hospitalised following the assault, they added.

The incident took place on Thursday evening when the minor was walking alone to a nearby market to purchase snacks. Sub-inspector Manju Kumari, station house officer of the Women's Police Station in Nuh, said the suspect spotted the child and lured her under the pretext of helping him carry a cot inside his house. "As soon as she went inside, the suspect locked the main door and raped her," she said.

The minor raised an alarm, managed to escape, and ran home. "The terrified girl narrated her ordeal to her parents, a...