KOCHI: The five-year-old girl who was killed in Aluva was the victim of a violent sexual assault, according to the post-mortem report. According to the post-mortem report, the girl sustained injuries, including on her private parts. It also became clear that the accused hit her head with a stone. The child was strangled to death using her clothes after the sexual assault. The preliminary report given to the police stated that the child had injuries all over her body. A detailed postmortem report will be provided later.

Asafak Alam (26), a Bihar native, abducted and murdered the five-year-old daughter of a Bihar couple living in Mukkath plaza yesterday evening. The child was buried behind the Aluva market amid the garbage one and a half kilometers away. Although the police managed to arrest the accused within five and a half hours of the incident, they were not able to find the child.

The child's mother was in the room when the accused abducted the child from the residence near the Thaikkattukara garage around 3:00 on Friday afternoon. The child's father was not at home. The deceased child is the second among the four children of the couple who are natives of Bishamparpur, Bihar. She was studying in Class One at Thaikkattukara School Complex.

Asafaq Alam abducted the child by luring her with the promise of buying her juice at around 3 pm yesterday. The police identified Asafaq abducting the child from CCTV footage and apprehended him in Thottakkattukara around 9:30 in the evening. Asafaq was drunk and unconscious at the time of the arrest, so the police could not obtain any information from him during the night. However, in the morning, workers at Aluva market informed the police that they had seen a man with a child in the market the previous evening.

Asafaq, who became sober in the morning, initially told the police that he had handed over the child to someone named Zakir. However, he later confessed to the crime. Subsequently, around 12 o'clock, the body was found on the banks of Periyar, where garbage is dumped behind the market. Upon receiving the information, the girl's father was brought to the spot and the body was identified.