A 42-year-old labourer was arrested for allegedly molesting his five-year-old neighbour in the western suburb of Jogeshwari, police said.

The police nabbed the accused from Kasam Nagar locality of Jogeshwari in the early hours of the day, senior inspector Someshwar Kamte of Amboli police station said. The victim's mother lodged a complaint on September 15 alleging that the accused, who lived in the same locality, removed the victim's clothes and molested her when she came to his shanty to play last week, he said.