LUCKNOW, July 10 -- A youth was arrested for allegedly raping a 7-year-old girl in Gauri Gali area of Swanapur village within Malihabad police station limits, police said on Thursday.

The 20-year-old accused lured the minor girl, who had gone to a nearby tubewell to take a bath, into accompanying him to a room near a drain in Madhavpur village, where he allegedly raped her on Wednesday evening, they said, adding the accused was arrested after the girl's family filed a complaint at the Malihabad police station on Thursday.

The accused was identified as Suchit Yadav, 20, who is a truck driver and a resident of Malihabad, according to a statement issued by the police. The FIR has been registered under Section 65(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya S...