southUpdated: Jan 24, 2020 09:49 ISTA man from Assam was arrested on Thursday on charges of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl at Kongalapuram village near Sivakasi town of Tamil Nadu. The girl, the daughter of a daily wager, went missing on Monday evening and her body was recovered from a bushy area half a kilometre from her house a day later. “During a sustained grilling by the police, he admitted to having committed the crime when the girl had come out for relieving herself. The Class 3 student used to go to her father’s workplace after school and on Monday evening too she had gone there. She went missing after telling him that she was going to relieve herself.

Source: Hindustan Times January 24, 2020 04:19 UTC