Not only did serial child rapist Rehan Qureshi abuse more than 20 children across Navi Mumbai, Thane and Palghar since 2015, but it now turns out he also raped and murdered two children in Nehru Nagar way back in 2010. The rape-murder cases had rocked the Kurla locality eight years ago. They remained unsolved until a couple of days ago, when the DNA from one of the cases matched samples taken from Qureshi, who was arrested following a series of mid-day reports on his crimes.

On Saturday, the DNA match came back for one of the cases — the rape-murder of a nine-year-old in Nehru Nagar on March 7, 2010. Upon interrogation, Qureshi confessed to not only this crime, but also an earlier case in the same locality: the sexual assault and murder of a six-year-old on February 6, 2010.