India, March 1 -- A four-year-old girl was kidnapped from her neighbourhood and raped allegedly by a 16-year-old boy on Thursday evening near their locality that falls under Bhojpur police station area, police said on Friday, adding that the teenager has been held.

The little girl was playing outside her house around 7pm when the teenager arrived and lured her to nearby isolated fields, officers said citing the family's complaint.

"My daughter was playing outside the house. He lured her on the pretext of getting her a sugarcane. There, he. assaulted her before fleeing. Some children playing nearby brought my daughter home and told that she had sustained some injury and was bleeding. When I inquired, the girl narrated the incident. We vi...