(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

SURAT: Katargam police arrested a 26-year-old diamond artisan on Thursday for allegedly raping, sexually assaulting and sodomizing a four-year-old girl a day ago in a desolate area of the city. The girl had serious injuries on her private parts and suffered a fracture on right leg and is undergoing treatment in a hospital. Cops produced accused Nitesh Rajput, a native of Bihar, in a local court which remanded him in police custody for six days until April 15. The accused has admitted to police having been caught for raping a six-year-old girl in Kolkata in 2017. He informed police that he came out of jail after eight months on bail. Police requested the court for his custody to find out if he was involved in similar crimes in the city.The accused, a resident of Kapodra, had consumed liquor in the slums alongside railway tracks in Varachha and Katargam and is suspected to have committed the crime thereafter, police sources said.On Wednesday afternoon, the minor girl had gone to answer nature's call with her elder sister in an open ground when the accused abducted her. He raped and sodomized her at a nearby location. Some passersby heard the cries of the minor girl and came to check when the accused escaped after throwing her on a pile of stones."Police nabbed the accused from one of the checkpoints. We had details of his looks from the CCTV footages based on which he was stopped for questioning," said a police officer at Katargam police station.Amid the ongoing lockdown, a four-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped by a 19-year-old youth Atul alias Karan alias Bhuriyo Jadav on March 24 in Limbayat area of the city. He was arrested by police on April 5.