ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police on Monday night arrested a man for allegedly raping a two-year-old girl in Bhara Kahu area, according to a local media report.

According to a first information report (FIR), the toddler had gone to her grandparents’ house but when her mother came for her a while later, she could not find the child.

After a while, the child came out crying from another house in the neighbourhood following which her grandmother went inside that house and found a man hiding in the bathroom. After knocking on the door for a while, the man came out and said that “he didn’t do anything” before anybody asked him anything.

According to the details, the suspect was living in the house on a rental basis.

The mother said that there were blood stains on the child’s clothes. She said that she took her daughter to a hospital where the doctor directed them to visit the police first. Later, the child was taken to the Polyclinic Hospital where a doctor confirmed that she had been raped after an initial examination.

Police have registered a case and arrested the suspected rapist. However, they are awaiting the medico-legal report for further legal action.