India, April 25 -- A 35-year-old man was arrested for allegedly raping a 37-year-old neighbour in Swaroop Nagar, after tying her and her 11-year-old daughter up when they were sleeping in their courtyard around 2.30am on Monday, police said. The crime took place in front of the daughter and the man was arrested on Wednesday, they said.

According to the version of events shared by the police, the accused works as a caretaker of a farmhouse and he scaled the wall of the farmhouse when the woman's husband was away in Muzaffarpur of Bihar, his home town.

A senior police officer, requesting anonymity, said: "The incident took place in the early hours of Monday but the matter was reported late on Tuesday. The woman confided in a female neighb...