One person has been detained in connection with the probe into the
sexual abuse and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Kolkata, the police said on
Friday, PTI reported.

“We have detained one person from the locality and are interrogating
him. He works as a security guard of a residential building in the area.
Probably, he knows certain things as we found a discrepancy in his
statement,” a senior officer said.

The minor was found lying in a pool of blood on the staircase of a
residential building. Protests erupted as locals claimed that “police did
not take action when the family had reported that she was missing”.

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The victim was visiting a relative when she went missing on Wednesday
evening. Preliminary investigations suggested that the minor was sexually abused,
thrashed, and strangled before her throat was slit by a person or a group of
persons.

The Kolkata Police’s detective department has taken over the
investigation.

Sleuths of the Kolkata Police spotted a couple of teeth and a few hair
strands on the staircase where the minor’s body was found. A blood-stained
knife, suspected to be the murder weapon, was found from a drain, just beside
the multi-storey building, the officer said.

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The police was working on the possibility that the girl might have been
killed somewhere else.

“We are also talking to the residents of the building from where
the girl’s body was recovered. She might be killed somewhere else and her body
was dumped inside the building. It seems that the criminal or the group of
criminals came from outside,” the officer said.

The minor, who was found lying in a pool of blood on the staircase that
led to the terrace of the multi-storey building, was “first sexually
abused and then killed”, the police had said.