The boy was sodomised two weeks ago by his neighbour. | Photo Credit: Getty Images

Mumbai: Police have arrested a 36-year-old man, who sodomised a 9-year-old boy two weeks ago at Kolegaon in Dombivili.

The accused has been identified Dinesh Lawhari. The accused also showed pornographic video to the boy before sodomising the victim. The boy was known to the accused as he lived in the neighbourhood.

According to a report in PTI, the crime occurred last Sunday at the house of the accused. Manpada police had booked the accused under IPC sections 377 (unnatural offences), 342 (wrongful confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. The accused worked as a housekeeper.

In September last year, a 44-year-old man was booked for allegedly sodomising a six-year-old boy in central Delhi’s Kamla Market.

According to police, the accused was a distant relative of the victim and often visited his house. The accused had lured the minor to his home on the pretext of getting him a chocolate and and sodomised him.

The report in The Hindu further stated that the victim was also threatened by the accused not to tell anyone about the incident.

The boy was let go after the boy assured the accused of not telling about it to anyone. The Delhi incident came to light after the boy narrated to his mother about the incident .

In June 2018, a 17-year-old student was allegedly sodomised by five men in Modinagar area of Ghaziabad. The accused also inserted an iron rod in the victim's rectum.

Similarly in October 2015, a five-year-old boy was allegedly sexually harassed by a man and found was with serious injuries at a field in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. The boy was playing outside his house when the accused took him away and sodomised him.