Ludhiana, March 23 -- The police booked a 25-year-old man for allegedly stalking and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl after barging into her house in Haidar Nagar village in Koom Kalan, officials said on Saturday.

Police identified the accused as Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha, a resident of the same village. The FIR was registered after a statement by the minor's father.

According to the complainant, they were sleeping at their home on March 13 when they heard his daughter crying. As they rushed upstairs to check, they found the accused fleeing out of his daughter's room, the complainant said, adding that the accused scaled the compound's walls.

He said his daughter told him that the accused had been harassing her for the past few...