Haridwar police arrested a person identified as Gulshan Navvar on the charge of murdering a six- year- old girl following a failed rape attempt and sent him to jail on 14- day judicial remand on Tuesday, informed the laksar circle officer CS Bisht.
The incident had happened at around 7.30 pm at Mohammadpur Kunhari under laksar police station of Haridwar district on June 27 evening. Police said that the accused was a neighbour of the family of the murdered girl. To crack the case, police had questioned around 200 people from the locality. The accused Gulshan Navvar was one of those thus questioned.
Police said that they had become suspicious of Gulshan after he had failed to answer when he had had his dinner on the night of the incident. As police had grilled him harder he had broken down and confessed to having committed the crime. As per police, he said that he had committed the crime under the influence of liquor and drugs. He had admitted to being an addict to liquor and narcotics. He reportedly admitted to having taken the girl to an under- construction Angarwari centre located outside her house and attempted to rape her. However, his attempts being resisted by her had infuriated him after which he had killed her with bricks left in the place. The accused had allegedly stripped the body of the blood-stained clothes and burnt them to destroy evidences.