KOHAT: A boy was assaulted by a man in Parshai area of Gumbat tehsil at gunpoint here on Tuesday, the police said.

Gumbat SHO Fazal Mohammad said the victim, 9, told his parents that a local resident, namely Sajid Minhas, 35, took him to the fields and ordered him to remove clothes at gunpoint and then assaulted him.

He said the police had arrested the accused, who admitted to his crime. SHO Fazal Mohammad said that the policehad registered FIR against the man.-Correspondent