Two days after a nine-year-old girl disappeared from Nehru Nagar, the police found her body in a local public washroom on Saturday. The girl’s body was found inside a public toilet at Nehru Nagar area in Vile Parle on Saturday morning, following which the accused was arrested, police said.
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The girl, who lived in a chawl in Nehru Nagar with her family, disappeared after being sent on an errand on April 4. “She had come back from school and was sent to buy tea. She never came back. We had been searching for her since then,” said the nine-year-old’s mother. “The girl’s body was found inside a public toilet in the same locality around 10 am today and we arrested one person in this connection,” he said.
Thirty-five-year-old Devendra Gundappa, who has a previous conviction for committing a sexual offence against a minor, has been arrested for allegedly raping and murdering the girl before dumping her body. A case has been registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) and 376 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). After the body was recovered, it was sent to Cooper Post Mortem Centre.
