ALUVA: Heart-wrenching scenes were witnessed as the five-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and killed by a migrant worker was laid to rest in a grave at the public crematorium at Keezhmad near Aluva town in Ernakulam district of Kerala on Sunday.
The last rites of the minor girl were performed after people paid homage at her school in Thaikkattukkara nearby.
Tributes were paid to the innocent victim of a terrible crime as a large number of people, which included teachers, students and parents gathered on the school premises to pay tribute to the child. The three siblings and parents of the girl's had arrived earlier at the school. The ambulance carrying her tiny body left for the school from the district hospital at around 7.45 am on Sunday.
The five-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death by a man who had moved into their building a few days back in Kerala's Ernakulam district. The accused migrant worker had dumped her body in a sack on Friday and confessed to the crime a day later, on Saturday, after he was found to be the killer, cops said.
Although the accused was arrested on Friday night, retrieving any information from him had to wait for hours since he was in a totally inebriated state, said the police. Search operations to nab the culprit had continued overnight.
The minor girl of the couple from Bihar went missing on Friday evening. Later, CCTV footage showed that she had been taken away by the accused.
The girl had gone missing from her house at Garage Junction, near Aluva town on Friday evening. The suspected kidnapper and rapist had been arrested later in the day after the police carried out an investigation.
The accused named Aslam is also from Bihar and he was staying on the first floor of the building where the child's family had their residence.
"We received the complaint at 7.10 pm and an FIR was registered before 8 pm on Friday. Our team checked the CCTV visuals and found that the child was with the labourer. We apprehended him at 9.30 pm. However, he was in an inebriated state and the child was not with him then," Ernakulam Rural SP Vivek Kumar said.
According to the autopsy report, the girl was raped and strangulated. Her body was later dumped in a sack in a marshy area located behind a local market in Aluva town on Saturday. A person had spotted the girl moving with the accused in the market area and informed the police after seeing a missing post on Facebook.
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