A six-year-old girl was brutally assaulted in Gujarat’s Rajkot after an attempted sexual assault, triggering widespread outrage and a large-scale police manhunt that ended with the arrest of a 35-year-old farm labourer.

The incident took place in Atkot, where a family from Dahod district had been working as agricultural labourers. Police said the child was playing near the fields on December 4 while her parents worked close by. An unidentified man allegedly abducted her and attempted to rape her.

When the child screamed, the attacker allegedly thrust a metal rod into her private parts, causing severe bleeding, before fleeing the spot.

The family began searching for her and discovered her lying injured near the fields. She was rushed to Rajkot’s Jannah Hospital. According to hospital sou

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