Four-year-old raped, killed in Belagavi; accused ends life

BELAGAVI: A four-year-old girl was raped and killed allegedly by her 47-year-old relative in Belagavi district in late November and he committed suicide by hanging, police said.
The twin incidents took place between November 23 and 25. After the toddler went missing from their house in Kodni village in Nippani Rural police station limits, her father filed a complaint on November 23.On November 25, the girl's father visited the police station to inform officers that he had been to his relative Kumar Ranoji Mane's house in Mane Colony in the village to enquire about his missing daughter. When his knocks on the door went unanswered, the girl's father entered the house from the rear door only to find Mane hanging from the ceiling of a room.
The girl's father has alleged that Mane raped and strangled her to death, and hid her body in the cupboard of his house.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)