Goa Police today arrested a man for allegedly raping and murdering a four-year-old girl in Quepem town, 80 kms away from here
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The 4-year-old victim, who hailed from Kurla in Mumbai, was on a vacation in Goa at her grandparents place in Quepem.u00a0
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While the incident happened on Sunday, her body was recovered from an under-construction building in the town yesterday.u00a0
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According to police, the accused, identified as Dipak Kumar, a labourer, is a married man and hails from Begusarai in Bihar. He has confessed to sexually abusing the girl and killing her on Sunday evening, they said.u00a0
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The minor victim was playing with other kids, when the accused offered her a chocolate and took her to an under- construction site, where he raped her, police Inspector Santosh Desai said.u00a0
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Fearing that she would reveal the incident to her grandparents, the accused later killed the girl by strangulating her, Desai said.
