India, Jan. 8 -- A 60-year-old man was thrashed and his house set on fire by a mob after a 13-year-old girl accused him of raping her in Assam's Barpeta district. The man was later arrested on charges of abduction and rape, police said on Thursday.

Police said the incident occurred in the Nayapara area of Lower Assam when the girl was on her way home from tuition classes at about 5pm. The man allegedly spotted the girl passing by his locality, gagged her and forcibly took her home where he raped her.

The suspect, identified by the police as Alif Bhuiyan, a local shopkeeper, let her go after he was done.

Police said the girl went straight home and told her family about the sexual assault. As word spread through the neighbourhood, angry ...