CCTV footage helped to nab child’s murderer: Police

Till then, the youth had been acting as if he knew nothing and even helped the girl’s parents to pass on the information to the police. He also, he actively participated when policemen searched the canals and drainages in the locality, fearing the girl might have fallen into one of them.

“We first thought it as an accident as we could see the girl in the CCTV footage till 6 pm. We searched the entire locality but got no trace. Then we thought the girl could have been abducted and we kept the phone ready to record, expecting a ransom call. 

Meanwhile the CCTV footage of the youth gave us the lead,” the official said. A police team was checking the CCTV footage and they found the youth going out with the bag and returning without it. 

“We grew suspicious seeing him returning without the bag and we started grilling him. He then started telling lies and on interrogation, he confessed to have committed the crime,” K Kannan, assistant commissioner of police, SRMC, told DTNext. 

Police said the youth, who lived on the second floor apartment in the same building, called the girl to his house when he was alone that day. He then sexually assaulted the child and when she cried out, he used a bedsheet to gag her and she died of suffocation.