The police have solved the horrific murder case of a five-year-old child at the hostel of a residential school in Bihar’s Jehanabad earlier this week. A guard at the school’s canteen has confessed to the crime, police said. He had allegedly sexually abused the boy and then slit his throat.

A sharp blade used in the murder has been recovered by the police, and the guard, Mukesh alias Sudama, 46, has been arrested. The hostel’s operator, Tarun Kumar, had also been taken into custody earlier.