India, May 19 -- Pune rural police have arrested a 27-year-old man for abducting and sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl near Kurkumbh in Pune district.

The incident was reported on May 16 on Pune-Solapur highway near Kurkumbh which falls in the Daund police station jurisdiction. The accused, identified as Navnath Chnadrakant Rithe from Sherechiwadi in Phaltan, was arrested by the police with the help of alert locals. The police said that the accused is an 'on-record' criminal and had been booked in a similar case in 2010 at the Loni Kalbhor police station where he spent eight years behind the bars.

According to the First Information Report (FIR) registered at Daund police station, the minor girl along with her grandfather had gone...