A 70-year-old man, Alhaji Umaru Daura, has been arrested by the police in Bauchi State for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter.

   The suspect, a resident of Kawo Rauta village in the Toro Local Government Area of the state, was arrested by policemen attached to the Zone 12 Police Command.

  The Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, Thomas Goni, disclosed this on Tuesday.

   Goni, a Superintendent of Police, in a terse statement said, “A 70-year-old man, Alhaji Umaru Daura, has been arrested by detectives attached to the Zone 12 police headquarters in Bauchi for defiling a neighbour’s daughter aged seven.

   “The victim’s father, Alhaji Habu, who reported the case to the police, said the suspect was caught red-handed.”

  The police spokesman said the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 12, Bauchi, Audu Madaki, had directed that the suspect be charged to court at the end of police investigation.