A man arrested for the murder of a five-year-old girl had tried to have sex with the body after strangling the child at his house in Odisha's Nayagarh district, SIT chief Arun Bothra claimed on Tuesday.

Accused Saroj Sethi had strangled the girl from Jadupur village when she resisted his rape attempt. After she died, Sethi attempted to have sexual intercourse with the corpse, Botha told media persons in Cuttack.