A five-year-old girl was sexually assaulted allegedly by a 14-year-old boy in her neighbourhood in southwest Delhi, a police official said on Saturday.

The incident took place when her parents, who are labourers, had gone to work and she was alone at home on Thursday afternoon, the official said.

Upon receiving information, the girl was immediately sent for medical examination, and she was counselled in the presence of her parents, he said.

A case under section 65 (2) (rape of minor) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act was registered. The boy was apprehended and sent to an observation home, police said.

The boy was the family's neighbour and the son of the complainant's friend, police said.

Further investigation of the case is underway, police added.

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