Kerala: Body of five-year-old girl found 21 hours after she went missing

The Kerala Police on Saturday recovered the body of a five-year-old girl in the Ernakulam district, about 21 hours after she went missing, reported PTI.

The girl, who hailed from Bihar, had gone missing from her home in the Aluva town’s Thaikkattukara area around 3 pm on Friday. Her body was found around noon on Saturday in a marshy area behind a local market at Aluva.

The police have arrested a labourer from Bihar named Asfak Alam, and said he has confessed to the crime, reported The Indian Express.

Ernakulam Rural Superintendent of Police Vivek Kumar said that a first information report was filed at 8 pm on Friday about the girl having gone missing. “Our team checked the CCTV camera footage and found that the child was with the labourer,” he said. “We apprehended him at 9.30 pm itself. However, he was in an inebriated state and the child was not with him.”

The official said that on Saturday morning, Alam confessed to the girl’s murder.

Local residents had told the police on Saturday that they had seen the child with the accused person a day earlier. Based on this information, the police searched the area and found the girl’s body near the market area.

Kumar said a medical examination indicated that...

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