Police have arrested 50-year-old Chhedu Mandal of Busbitti in Janakpurdham Sub-Metropolis-22 on the charge of raping a 4-year-old girl of the same ward.

Dhanusha SP Prakash Ranabhat said that the accused were arrested on the basis of a complaint lodged against them for raping the girl.

On Tuesday evening, Chhedu Mandal took the girl to play. The family alleges that he took the girl to the mango orchard and raped her when no one was at home.

After not returning home till late evening, the family searched for the girl and found her unconscious in a mango orchard about 200 meters away from the house.

The accused Chhedu Mandal had earlier raped another woman from his own village. However, at that time, the incident was covered up in the village and fined by the Panchayat.