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Key Highlights Rounded up on suspicion, the boy confessed to the crime Parents of the girl said that the boy often visited to play with her She was found in a mustard field not far from her home

Gurugram: Police in Haryana's Mewat detained a 14-year-old boy after he confessed to raping a toddler in Taaru, about 35 kilometres from Gurugram. The boy reportedly confessed to abducting the child and sexually abusing her in a mustard field not far from her residence. He has been booked under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

In their complaint to the police, the girl's parents alleged that the boy often visited to play with their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. On Thursday evening, he had gone to the house and found that the child was alone. The boy abducted her and took her to a mustard field where he raped her before fleeing the spot and leaving her there.

Upon their return, the parents were unable to find their daughter. They approached local police and lodged a missing person complaint in this regard. A case was registered and a search was launched to locate the child. The same night, police found her lying in the mustard field. At the time she was found, the girl was unclothed and bleeding. She was rushed to a hospital in Nuh and is now medically stable.

Investigators rounded up suspects on the basis of information gathered from the child's parents. One of those detained for questioning was the 14-year-old boy who admitted to committing the horrendous crime.

A similar incident was reported from Nuh on Thursday evening where an eight-year-old girl was raped and beaten to death with a stone. The daughter of cattle rearers, the girl had taken the family's goats to a grazing field when she was abducted. Her body was found nearly 12 hours later. A case has been registered and further investigation is underway, however, a senior police official said that more details can only be furnished once the post-mortem report is out.