Dahisar resident sentenced to 20 years in jail for raping 9-year-old

Bhubaneswar: A 27-year-old man was arrested in Odisha’s Ganjam district for allegedly raping and murdering his 4-year-old girl distant relative, whose body was recovered from an under-construction house on Saturday, Police said.

Police have sent the 4-year-old girl’s body to MKCG Medical College for postmortem (Pic for Representation)

“The man, a distant relative of the girl who went missing on Friday evening, has been charged under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012,” Ganjam superintendent of police (SP) Suvendu Patra said.