Chhattisgarh Police on Saturday arrested a 22 year old man from Maharashtra and brought him to Dongargarh city for killing a minor girl over one sided love in Rajnandgaon district few days ago.
Rajnandgaon Superintendent of Police Prafull Thakur told The Pioneer that Chhabil Kurre of Katalwahi village has been taken into custody.
Kurre killed the girl of the same village.
The family members lodged a case of missing with the police on Tuesday night following which the body of the victim girl was found on Wednesday in bushes near a Dangora dam in Dongargarh town.
During the investigation into the case, the police learnt that the victim had gone towards Dhara village in a motorcycle with Kurre.
Based on the technical analysis of the mobile number, the police nabbed him from Nagpur in Maharashtra.
Kurre told the police that he slit the throat of a minor girl with a knife after she rejected his love proposal.
The police said that whether the victim was raped or not would be ascertained after the post-mortem report.
The police recovered the knife and a motorcycle used in the crime.