Thane: A 35-year-old man from Vasai in Thane district was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl, police said today.

The accused, Rajesh Vishwakarma, a resident of the same Boidapada locality in Vasai where the 11-year-old victim lived, yesterday went to her house when her parents were not around and asked her to cook food for him as his wife had not done so, Waliv police station inspector Narayan Patil said.