The suspect was accused of luring away the girl by promising her a chocolate sometime between 11 pm on March 31, 2007, and 8 am the next day, raping and beating her, and subsequently strangling her
The crime took place in 2007, police said, Representational Pic/File
A man has been arrested from Uttar Pradesh for allegedly raping and brutally murdering a five-year-old girl in the district 18 years ago, Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar (MBVV) Police said on Saturday, reported the PTI.
The crime had taken place in the Manikpur police station limits, said Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Madan Ballal, according to the PTI.
Nandlal alias Nandu Ramdas Vishwakarma, then 22, was nabbed from his village Khardauri in Siddharth Nagar district of UP on December 10, he said.
The crime took place in 2007
Vishwakarma was accused of luring away the girl by promising her a chocolate sometime between 11 pm on March 31, 2007, and 8 am the next day, raping and beating her, and subsequently strangling her.
"He escaped to Nepal after the incident and stayed there for a long time. He returned to UP recently and was working as a laborer at a brick kiln," said senior inspector Aviraj Kurhade.
Tip-off was received a few days ago
The Crime Detection Cell-2, Vasai, which was carrying out a parallel probe along with the local police station, received a tip-off a few days ago that he was hiding in his native village. A team was sent to Khardauri and Vishwakarma was arrested, the inspector added, the news agency reported.
Man on the run for 19 years in fraud case arrested in Latur
In an another incident, last month, a 53-year-old man, who had been on the run for around 19 years in a fraud case, was arrested in the Latur district of Maharashtra, police had earlier said.
The accused, who was identified as Abhang Prabhu, alias Prabhakar Suryawanshi, is accused of cheating people by posing as the sarpanch of a village and preparing fake birth certificates for children, reported the PTI.
However, a case was registered against him on June 14, 2006, at Gandhi Chowk police station under various sections of the erstwhile Indian Penal Code (IPC) for cheating and other charges, a police official said.
The suspect kept changing his locations
Police officials further asserted that “Suryawanshi changed his locations frequently, making it difficult for investigators to trace him. He travelled from village to village, falsely identifying himself as the sarpanch of a gram panchayat, as per PTI.
"He allegedly prepared fake birth certificates and cheated several citizens. He collected blank birth certificate forms of children, forged signatures and stamps, and issued fake documents," they added.
A special team received confidential information that the accused was staying in the Bobli area in Latur district, following which a raid was conducted and he was held, the news agency reported.
(with PTI inputs)
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