18 October,2012 10:36 AM IST | | Agencies
One person has been arrested in connection with the alleged rape and murder of a three-year-old infant girl whose body was recovered from a drain, police said today.
Harishchandra Yadav (35) was arrested last night, they said.
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During interrogation, Yadav said he had committed the crime on Monday when he was drunk.
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However, the victim's relatives refused to believe the police and staged demonstrations at Ambedkar Circle to demand that the "real culprit" be nabbed.
The child's body had been recovered from a drain in Nandola area, two kilometres away from her home.
Irate over the incident, locals had Wednesday staged protest by keeping victim's body on the Baran-Shahbad road.
However, they were later pacified by officials, after which her body was sent for postmortem.u00a0
