India, April 24 -- A woman caretaker of a farmhouse in Delhi's Swaroop Nagar area was allegedly raped by a neighbour in front of her daughter, police said on Thursday.

The 35-year-old accused, a native of Bihar's Muzaffarpur, was arrested by Delhi police on Wednesday. The victim had registered a complaint at the local police station on Wednesday.

According to a police official, the accused, Dharminder, tied the hands and feet of both the mother and her daughter before he raped the victim.

In her complaint, the woman alleged that they were assaulted when she and her 11-year-old daughter were asleep in the verandah of the farmhouse in Kadipur. They also live in the same area.

"Around 2 am to 2.30 am on the intervening night of April 20 ...