A labourer was arrested from Jag Nagar village in Satna district for allegedly sexually abusing his two minor daughters for over five years, police said on Monday. Rajkumar Kushwaha has repeatedly raped his two daughters, one a student of class IX and the other class VII student in a local school, since 2007 after his wife passed away, they said.

According to police, unable to bear the torture, the girls confided in their friends in school who narrated the incident to their teachers who informed the police.

Police arrested Rajkumar on Sunday and also got the medical examination of the victims done.