A 25-year-old man has been arrested by the Dharavi Police on Thursday for sodomising and threatening an eight-year-old boy. The boy was playing near his house on Wednesday afternoon when the man, identified as Murugan lured him with goodies and took him to a secluded place near his home, where he sodomised him.

According to the complaint filed by the boy’s father, when the child screamed in pain, the man threatened to kill him. A passer-by saw the boy being assaulted and raised an alarm after which Murugan fled the spot but did not return to his home. The child was initially scared to tell his parents about the incident, when he complained of severe pain in his private parts that night. But after his father consoled him, the boy told him about the incident.