5-Year Old Kerala Girl Rape And Murder Case: What We Know About The Incident, So Far?

The cops have arrested an immigrant in connection with a rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in Kerala. The migrant worker had allegedly abducted her, raped and strangulated her to death.

Her body was found dumped in a sack in a marshy area behind a local market in the nearby Aluva today. The girl went missing on Friday and the man was arrested later in the day.

• "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 itself. However, he was in an inebriated state and the child was not with him," Ernakulam Rural SP, Vivek Kumar told the media.
• The accused has been identified as Asfaq Aslam.
• The minor was the daughter of a migrant couple from Bihar and she went missing from her house at the Garage junction on Friday evening. The girl's body was found dumped in a sack in a marshy area behind a local market.
• She was brutally assaulted, and sexually abused and the accused used garbage and sacks to cover the body, police said.
• Based on the CCTV visuals, police arrested the labourer hailing from Bihar, who was staying in a room on the first floor of the building where the child's family was residing.
• Locals had seen the man with the minor girl which helped the cops to identify the killer.
• The opposition Congress came down heavily on the state police and alleged lapses on their part in tracing the child.
• Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, V D Satheesan said the child was inside Aluva town itself and was not found on time. He said the police failed to act even after it was clear that the accused had abducted the child.
• "The situation is such that even children are not safe these days. The police claim that over usage of drugs and alcohol led to this crime," Satheesan said.
• KPCC chief K Sudhakaran urged the government to provide appropriate compensation to the family of the child.
• After the heart-breaking incident of rape and strangulation to death of a girl near Kochi, hundreds turned up on Sunday at the school where her body was kept to pay their respects and demanded stringent punishment, especially death, for the accused.
• People, cutting across all ages and from all walks of life, turned up to pay tribute to the child at the school where she was a student till Thursday.