An eight-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by a man in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district, police said on Saturday.
A complaint was received by police from the victim's family that one Niraj Kumar took the boy to a sugarcane field and sexually assaulted him there, Station House Officer Parbhakar Kentura said.
The incident took place on in the Kandhla area of the district on Friday, he said.
A case was registered against the accused and efforts are on to nab him, Kentura said.
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