Silvassa (Dadra and Nagar Haveli): Police arrested a man on Saturday for murdering a four-year-old girl in Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
The girl was found murdered in the man's flat after the police launched a search operation to find the girl. The four-year-old's parents had filed a police complaint after she went missing on Friday afternoon.
According to the information, a four-year-old girl who lives with her parents in an apartment in Naroli area had been missing since Friday afternoon. Despite a massive search by the parents, the whereabouts of the girl couldn't be traced. After this, a missing case was reported in the local police station.
A preliminary investigation by the police suggested that she went missing while playing with her friend on Friday afternoon.
Police searched almost 40 houses in the locality, including the missing girl's family. During the course of the search, police found blood traces of blood splatter in the man's flat, also located in the locality. In a subsequent search in the apartment premises, the police discovered the child's body stuffed in a bag.