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RAIPUR: A 65-year-old man was arrested on the charges of raping his own four-year-old granddaughter and killing her. The incident took place when he was left alone at home to look after her when her parents went out to work in Kondagaon district of Chhattisgarh . The nude body of minor girl was found along with the cloth of man near by. It was found during investigation that he had raped her.

Police said that the girl went missing on last Wednesday and her body was found floating in a wetland few kilometres from her house in Farasgaon region next day.

It was suspected that she was raped before being murdered and police began its investigation. Meanwhile, the grandfather identified as Ramsu Ram Patel acted in grief. He had told the parents that the girl had gone out to play and after calling her out several times, she didn’t return, only then he realized that she had gone missing.

The parents reported the matter to police.

While no one could imagine it could be Patel, the little girl’s grandfather as the criminal behind her murder, when the dog squad went to the spot, police recovered a cloth that belonged to Patel.

Patel was detained and thorough questioning was done when he finally broke down and confessed that he was drunk and he called the girl inside the home when she was playing. He raped her multiple times, even as the girl cried, but he covered her mouth tightly with his hand and later strangulated that her to death.

For fear of being caught, Patel hid her body inside the heap of dry grass and acted in searching for the girl with her parents. Patel told police that on Thursday post-midnight, he took out the body from dry grass and taking it to the nearby wetland where cattle bath, he threw the body in mud-water.

But late on Thursday, when buffaloes went inside water, the body came on the surface floating and the shepherd informed the police. It was a nude body and the grandfather had used his cloth to wrap the body while taking it out from the house. He had thrown the cloth close to the place and was caught.

