In Pune’s Loni Kalbhor area, A one-year-old girl, asleep next to her parents was allegedly picked up and taken to an isolated area by a 22-year-old man who then raped her and smashed her head to the ground, Friday the cop said the same.
On Thursday, the accused, identified as Malhari Bansode, which was captured on CCTV footage, picking up the child while she was sleeping next to her parents in the Loni Kalbhor in the open.
The man was arrested for this incident, as per police.
The girl’s family work as laborers in Pune and they are native from the Tamil Nadu, the police added further.
“At midnight, the family members, including her parents, realised that the girl was missing and they started searching for her. Subsequently, a missing complaint was registered,” a senior officer of the Loni Kalbhor said in the police station.
On Friday, The body of the girl was found close-by and was sent for medical examination which eventually revealed that she was sexually assaulted before her head was smashed in the ground.
“During investigation, we found a CCTV footage in which a man was purportedly seen taking away a girl. Our detection team zeroed in on the accused and during interrogation, he confessed to raping and killing her,” the police official said.
A case was registered against Malhari Bansode who was then arrested under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, the officer added further.
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