A 35-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sodomising and beating up his minor employee in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.

The police on November 18, arrested the accused, who owns a meat shop, in Ambernath town of the district, an official said. The incident took place on the intervening night of November 13 and 14, when the accused allegedly sexually assaulted the minor and had unnatural sex with him. The boy worked at the shop and lived there, the official said.