India, Sept. 2 -- A 21-year-old man has been arrested in Assam's Silchar for raping a four-year-old girl, who was left in his care by her mother, police said on Tuesday.

Police said the girl's mother works as a house help and lives in the same building as the accused. Both of them are tenants.

"I took her to that house two days back because there was nobody to look after her in my room. On Monday, she told me that she was tortured and when I saw her private areas, I was shocked to see the injuries," the mother said.

Raju Deb, the officer in-charge of Silchar's Rangirkhari police station, said a case had been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act and the accused arrested.

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