Minor boy sodomised in Deoband

A six-year-old boy has allegedly been sodomised by a youth at Gujjarwada locality in Deoband, police said today.

"Locals caught Yousuf, 22, a resident of Gujjarwada locality, while sodomising the minor boy on the rooftop of a shop nearby a mosque here," Additional Superintendent of Police (Rural) Jagdish Sharma said today.

The victim and the accused were sent for medical examination last night, police said adding that Yousuf has been arrested.