[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A nine-year-old girl was raped and found dead in the drainage chamber of a public toilet in Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai on Saturday, two days after she went missing.

The girl was sexually assaulted and then killed by a man named Vadivelu Chintambi Devendra, (35), who had earlier served jail in 2013 for raping a 5-year-old girl of his neighborhood, Mumbai Mirror reported. The man was released from jail in 2018 for his good behaviour.

“The victim, who resided in a chawl at Nehru Nagar in Vile Parle, had gone missing on Thursday evening. A missing person’s report had been filed at Juhu police station,” a police official said.
“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.
The girl returned home from school around 6 pm on April 4 and went out to buy a packet of tea. When she did not return by 7.30 pm, her parents approached the Juhu Police.

After his arrest, Devendra confessed to kidnapping the child, taking her to his house and sexually assaulting her. The accused took the police to the spot in the public toilet where he had dumped her body.

“We have booked him for murder, causing disappearance of evidence and rape, and relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act,” Additional Commissioner of Police (western) Manoj Kumar Sharma said.

The girl’s body was sent for post-mortem, police said. A large number of local residents gathered outside the Juhu police station demanding “justice”.

#Mumbai: Locals protest outside Juhu PS after body of a 9-year-old girl was found in a drain in Nehru Nagar, Juhu. Additional CP Manoj Sharma says, “The protesting locals are demanding justice. The man accused has been arrested. Investigation will be done from all angles.” pic.twitter.com/JFTTmPwcvT

— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2019

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