Palghar: A 50-year-old labourer from Vasai area here was arrested for allegedly raping his teenaged daughter for about a year, police said today.

The accused (name withheld to protect victim's identity) had been living with his 15-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son at the Azadnagar slum colony in Vasai since his wife separated from him some years back, Manickpur police station sub-inspector A C Patil said.