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A 22-year-old antheral was arrested connected Monday (January 5, 2026) for sexually assaulting and past hacking to decease an 11-year-old miss successful Narayanpur country of Chhattisgarh, the constabulary said.
The miss went missing connected December 31, 2025, and her assemblage was recovered connected Sunday (January 4), said Superintendent of Police (Narayanpur) Robinson Guria. The accused, a household acquaintance of the victim, regularly visited her house, Mr. Guria said.
Earlier, connected December 31’s evening, the miss had near location and did not instrumentality till the evening. Family and neighbours kept looking for her implicit the adjacent fewer days. On Sunday (January 4) evening, they recovered her assemblage successful an cultivation tract and informed the police. The assemblage had wounded marks and was sent for post-mortem.
The begetter of the miss told the constabulary that connected December 31, helium had seen Sanju Kumeti, a colony resident, adjacent the spot wherever the assemblage was recovered and besides mentioned that Kumeti was carrying an axe, Mr. Guria added.
Kumeti was a regular visitant to the victim’s residence wherever helium would spell to portion Salfi, an alcoholic beverage that is fashionable successful the Bastar portion that has 7 districts including Narayanpur.
“It has been confirmed that the accused took vantage of his anterior acquaintance with the unfortunate and sexually assaulted and past murdered her,” the constabulary said.
Accused confessed to crime: constabulary
As the constabulary questioned Kumeti, helium purportedly confessed to his crime. He told the constabulary that aft the intersexual assault, helium feared that the miss would archer everyone astir the enactment and decided to termination her, Mr. Guria added.
He was subsequently booked nether the applicable provisions of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023, and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, 2012, and arrested.
