The man, who raped a five-year-old child and strangled her on August 2 night in Ghaziabad, has been arrested, police said on Tuesday. After choking the girl to death, the accused had packed her body in a bag and dumped on the roof of a neighbour in Khoda locality of the city bordering Delhi. Addressing the media on Tuesday, Ghaziabad Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vaibhav Krishna said that late on August 2, the parents of the victim had lodged a complaint stating that their five-year-old child had been abducted by some unidentified person.

The police recovered the body the next day, on August 3, from the roof of the adjacent house. It had been wrapped first in a cloth bag, then thrust into a gunny bag and that gunny bag was kept in a plastic bag. The autopsy report confirmed that the child had been raped before being strangled. During their investigation, the police found that a person staying as a tenant in the house had been missing since August 3, which was very unusual, as he was otherwise said to be very friendly with the house owner.