A 22-year-old man was arrested for the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district, police said on Friday, 24 April.

The police followed several leads to arrest the man involved in the crime late on Thursday, 23 April, Damoh district's superintendent of police (SP) Hemant Chouhan said.

The incident took place at a village in Jabera tehsil on Wednesday evening, 22 April, when the accused lured the minor, who was playing outside her house, with a toffee, an official said.