A couple arrested in connection with the Kalyan rape-murder case of a girl in Thane district in Maharashtra was on Saturday remanded in judicial custody till January 18, reported the PTI.

Vishal Gawli allegedly abducted the girl with the help of his wife Sakshi Gawli from Chakki Naka area of Kalyan on December 23 when she was playing outside her house. He allegedly raped and killed her. The couple then took the body in an autorickshaw to Bapgaon on Kalyan-Padgha road and dumped it there, as per police.