The crime took place in July this year when a migrant worker from Bihar, Ashfaq Alam is said to have abducted, raped and killed the five-year-old victim girl, who lived in the same building as he did.
The child’s body was discovered in a sack in a swampy area behind a local market in Aluva.
Alam faced 16 charges, including aggravated penetrative sexual assault, rape, and murder, under various Sections of the POCSO Act and the Indian Penal Code.
Source: Barandbench
