Bengaluru: A special team of police officers on Monday arrested Anil, the accused in a six-year-old girl’s murder, at Shahpur in Yadgir district.
The accused, Anil, who worked in a stone-crushing unit at Veerabhadranagar in Girinagar police limits was living in a rented house along with his wife and their eight-year-old daughter.
According to the police, the girl was visiting her grandfather Puttaswamy for summer vacation and used to play with the Anil’s daughter as the family lived nearby.
A few days ago, Anil’s wife and daughter left for their home town. Without knowing this, the girl went to Anil’s house to meet her friend on April 20 while her grandfather, a vegetable vendor, was out on work.
Meanwhile, Puttaswamy returned from work and realised that his granddaughter was missing. After hours of search, he filed a missing complaint with the police.
The neighbours who had joined the search operation on Sunday alerted the police after a foul smell started emanating from Anil’s house. The police broke open the door and found the decomposed body of the girl in a cardboard box.
