Aligarh police is investigating the case.

A four-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 17-year-old boy in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh on Thursday evening, police said. The accused is a relative of the girl, they said.

The girl was playing near her house when the accused took the girl to a nearby field in her village and raped her.

Local villagers rushed to the field on hearing the cries of the girl and caught the accused, who was then handed over to the police.