A 32-year-old man, a labourer, has been nabbed from Madhubani in Bihar where he fled after allegedly raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Bhiwandi city in Thane district of Maharashtra last week. The murder of six-year-old girl in Bhiwandi had came to light recently, the police said on Wednesday, according to the PTI.

The girl, a resident of Thane district, went missing from her house on September 13. Her body was found dumped in a bucket the next day from the rented room of the suspect, who went absconding, said Deputy Commissioner of Police, zone II, Navnath Dhavle, reported the PTI.