Kushtia, May 26 -- Police arrested the caretaker of a mango orchard early Tuesday for allegedly raping a Class-IV schoolboy when he went to pick mangoes at the garden in Kumarkhali upazila.

The arrestee is Wahed Ali, 50, son of late Rajab Ali Biswas of Tarapur village in the upazila.

Later in the day, a court sent him to jail when police produced him before it.

The alleged incident took place on Sunday morning.

According to locals, the boy went to the field with goats and later entered the orchard to collect mangoes. The accused allegedly raped him there.

The boy later narrated the incident to his mother.

Local influential figures pressured the family to settle the matter through a salish (village arbitration), which was scheduled f...