Jamshedpur, Dec. 11 -- Police on Thursday arrested a 50-year-old man on charges of raping a seven-year-old girl under the Junbani panchayat in Dhalbhumgarh block in East Singhbhum district, officials said.

"The fifty-year-old has been arrested on charges of raping a seven-year-old girl in the neighbourhood under the Junbani panchayat on Monday night. An FIR has been registered against the accused under sections 64(2)(f) and 65(2) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) and section 6 of the Pocso Act, 2012," Dheeraj Mishra, officer-in-charge of Dhalbhumgarh police station, told the media on Thursday.

A police official said the parents of the survivor took her to the Dhalbhumgarh primary health centre (PHC) on Tuesday morning in a bleeding co...