Aurangabad, Aug 30 (PTI) A man was nabbed on Tuesday within hours after he allegedly sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl in Sindfal village in Maharashtra's Osmanabad district, police said.

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The accused, Ankush Wadne, abducted the girl when she was playing outside her house around noon and took her to a farm where he committed the crime, a police officer said.

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The girl's mother saw Wadne taking away her daughter and followed them with other women. The accused fled from the spot but was nabbed later, a Tuljapur police station officer told PTI.

A case was registered under section 376 (Punishment for rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.

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