Navi Mumbai Police have cracked 8-year-old rape and murder case with the help of India's first criminal DNA databank.

A man named Rehan Qureshi, taken into custody by Navi Mumbai Police has been found to be behind the rape and murder of two minor girls, aged five and seven. The girls were abducted, raped and murdered in Nehru Nagar locality of Kurla in Mumbai.

A senior police officer has revealed the breakthrough to India Today requesting anonymity. He also informed that a press conference will be held in this regard at Navi Mumbai Commissionerate on Tuesday.

This cases led to the creation of India's first of its kind DNA databank in which DNA of more than 3000 persons were recorded. These include petty criminals, chain snatchers, suspects, vagabonds and even policemen. The process of recording the DNA went on until recently for the two cases which were unsolved.

Rehan Qureshi confessed to have raped and molested hundreds of minors after he was taken in custody by the police. Reportedly, his DNA matched the samples taken from the two victims in Nehru Nagar. The samples matched and the police were able to crack the cases.

Even police officers were suspected to have been involved in the crime as the body of one of the victims was found on the terrace of police quarters barely ten metres away from Nehru Nagar police station. DNA samples of a Senior Police Inspector and his son were also collected. But the samples did not match.

Rehan Qureshi's arrest will seal one of the most shocking rape and murder mystery that remained unsolved for a long time. This will put end to his savage acts.

The case had led to transfers of several policemen, also many were shunted and punished with non-executive postings for failing to nab the killer of the two minors.