A 36-year-old man was arrested for the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Vile Parle. While checking the CCTV footage, cops noticed that the child, who had been missing since Thursday, was taken away by a man. On being detained, the accused confessed to the crime and admitted to having dumped her body in the sewage tank of a public toilet.

The victim was a resident of a chawl in Nehru Nagar, Vile Parle West and studied at a municipal school. On Thursday evening, she stepped out to buy tea from a nearby hotel. When she did not return, the family lodged a missing person's complaint at the Juhu police station.