Neighbour sodomises two-year-old boy, flees

A two-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by his neighbour in Chitbadagaon township in Ballia, police said on Friday.

The boy was playing outside his house when his neighbour Santosh (25) took him to his house and sodomised the child in Ballia on Friday, they said.

On the complaint of the mother, an FIR has been lodged and hunt was on for the accused, who fled after the crime. The boy has been sent to the district hospital.