Kanjirapally police on Saturday, 7 December, arrested the 22-year-old Kerala man accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl who was alone in her house.

The crime happened at Kanjirapally in Kottayam district on Thursday. Twenty-two-year-old Arun Suresh, a resident of the same area, absconded following the incident and was nabbed by police.

According to officials of Kanjirapally police station, the man reached the girl’s house on Thursday evening asking for water, barged in, and when he realised she was alone in the house, sexually assaulted her.