Joypurhat: An eight-year-old speech impaired girl was raped by a man at Bhugoil village in Kalai upazila on Thursday.

Police arrested Mehedi Hasan, 37, son of Makbul Hossain of the village, reports the UNB.

Abdul Latif Khan, officer-in-charge of Kalai Police Station, said Mehedi, a neighbour of the victim, took the girl to his house and violated her in absence of his family members in the afternoon.

Being informed by locals, police went to the spot and sent the victim to Joypurhat Modern Hospital.

Following the complaint of the victim’s mother, police arrested Mehedi at night.

A case was filed.