A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped and strangled to death in Madhya Pradesh's Hoshangabad district, police said on Monday.
The girl's body was on Saturday found wrapped in a cloth on the roof of her house in Sohagpur area, located about 50 km from the district headquarters, Sohagpur police station's inspector Vikram Rajak said.
A preliminary autopsy report released on Sunday night suggested she was raped and then strangled to death, he said.
The police have picked up a person living in the victim's neighbourhood and he is being questioned, the official said.
The girl went missing around 3 pm on Saturday. Her family members searched for her and after being unable to finding her in their village, they lodged a police complaint, he said.
The family members later checked the roof of their house and found the body, the official said.
The police have registered a case against the unidentified culprit under sections for rape and murder as well as relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he added.
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