A drunkard allegedly kidnapped a seven-year-old boy and asked him to fill liquor in glasses after assaulting him here, police said on Tuesday. The accused, Radhesham Ramti Sharma (27), a resident of Wardhaman Nagar, was arrested on Tuesday, they said. The boy was playing near his home on Monday when the accused came there on a motorcycle and forced him to sit on his vehicle, the police said.

Sharma drove the minor to nearby bushes where he took out a liquor bottle and glasses. He asked the boy to pour liquor into the glasses, they said. When the boy refused to do so, the accused beat him up with a rod and left, the police said. At the same time, the parents of the boy launched a frantic search for their son and found him in the bushes and took him to hospital, they said.