A boy who raped and killed a 14-year-old girl and dumped the body in a well in Chhattisgarh's Balrampur district has been arrested, police said on Friday.
The incident took place on June 24 in a village in Shankargarh police station limits, an official said.
"The girl's family was busy with her elder sister's wedding preparations. The victim went out of the house with a friend and was not seen after that. The family mounted a search and found her body in a well in a paddy field on June 27," said Prakash Rathore, the Station House Officer of Shankargarh police station.
"Her post mortem report revealed she had been hit with a blunt object on the head, which caused her death. After her friends were questioned, we zeroed in on a 17-year-old boy and apprehended him on Thursday. He tried to mislead us but eventually confessed to raping and killing her," said the official.
The accused told the police he hit her with a stone on the head when she refused to given in, and then sexually assaulted her after she fell on the ground injured, Rathore said.
"After the girl died, he dumped the body and stone in the well. He has been booked under IPC and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for murder, rape and causing disappearance of evidence. He was sent to a juvenile home by a court here," said the officer.