India, Dec. 10 -- A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping and torturing a seven-year-old girl with an iron rod in a village of Gujarat's Rajkot district on December 4, police said.

Ramsingh Tejsingh, a resident of Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, had worked in the Rajkot area as a farm labourer for the past couple of years.

The girl was accompanying her parents, who had migrated from Gujarat's Dahod and worked as labourers, to the farm field.

The accused, father of three children, allegedly took the girl to a nearby water tank, gagged her, and attempted to rape her around 11am on December 4. He tortured her with a one-foot iron rod when he failed to rape her, according to police officers.

"The girl's parents found her bleeding...