A five-year-old lady was brutally raped and strangled to loss of life after she was kidnapped by a migrant employee from her home in Kerala’s Kochi on Friday, information company PTI reported citing the police.

The post-mortem report claimed the kid was raped and strangulated to loss of life, and her physique was discovered dumped in a sack in a marshy space behind a neighborhood market within the close by Aluva on Saturday. The accused has been arrested later within the day.

“We received the complaint at 7.10pm and an FIR was registered before 8pm on Friday. Our team checked the CCTV camera footage and found that the child was with the labourer. We apprehended him at 9.30pm itself. However, he was in an inebriated state and the child was not with him,” PTI quoted Ernakulam Rural SP Vivek Kumar as saying.

The sufferer was a daughter of a migrant couple from Bihar. She had gone lacking from her home on the Garage junction on Friday night.

The police stated her physique was discovered dumped in a sack in a marshy space behind a neighborhood market. The lady was brutally assaulted and sexually abused earlier than being dumped.

How police traced the lady’s physique

The police stated initially on Friday evening, they discovered it tough to interrogate and collect particulars from the accused who was intoxicated. “On Saturday morning, he confessed to the crime. However, he also tried to mislead the investigation team,” Kochi Range DIG, Srinivas A, informed reporters.

Earlier within the day, locals informed the cops of seeing the kid with the migrant employee close to the market space on Friday. Police rushed to the spot, searched the realm together with the locals, and recovered the lady’s physique.

The folks added that the land behind the market is an remoted space and can be a waste dump web site. The space was frequented by anti-social components and alcohol and drug consumption was rampant there, they stated.

Meanwhile, the Kerala Police posted an apology to the household of the sufferer on all its social media handles saying that their efforts to reunite the kid together with her mother and father proved unsuccessful.

(With inputs from PTI)