GORAKHPUR: A man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping and beheading her 19-year-old

daughter

in Bathbuzurg village of

.

The arrest was made on the complaint of the elder daughter of the accused.

Police said the accused, Jai Prakash Gupta had been allegedly raping his younger daughter for the last two years. During interrogation, Gupta told the police that on July 26 night, he raped his daughter and beheaded her.

He buried the head in Urwa area of the district and threw the lower part of the body in Kachna Nulla in Harpurbudhat. Police recovered the body on the basis of the information provided by the accused.

Gupta admitted that he had been raping his daughter for the last two years.

His wife died about 15 years ago and after the marriage of his elder daughter in 2015, Gupta and his younger daughter had been living in the house.

When the girl didn't visit her sister's house on

, she asked her father about it. Gupta told her that he had killed her.

Senior superintendent of police Sunil Gupta said, "The accused has accepted that he raped and killed his daughter and the police have recovered the body parts. A case of

has been registered against the accused."