Ahmedabad:
A youth was arrested here for allegedly raping and murdering a five-year-old girl, police said today.
The body of Divya Chauhan (5), who has been missing from her house in Odhav area since Sunday, was found near Ropda railway over-bridge in Vatva today, they said.
Rajesh Yadav, who lived in the neighbourhood of the girl, has been arrested in this connection, they said.
According to police, Yadav abducted Divya near her house on Sunday and brought her to a shanty near Ropda over-bridge on his cycle.
He then allegedly raped the girl and strangulated her to death and left the body near the over-bridge, they said.
Divya's body has been sent to civil hospital for post mortem, police said, adding that Yadav was being interrogated, and was likely to be produced before court for remand tomorrow.