India, April 9 -- A 20-year-old Mumbra resident was arrested late at night on Monday for allegedly raping and murdering a 10-year-old girl from the same neighbourhood. The man had lured the girl into his building when she was out playing on Monday evening and dumped her half-naked body in the building's duct after raping and murdering her, said police.

The deceased's mother, a 40-year-old widow, works as a domestic help. "My daughter was having her exams. So when she returned from school around 6pm on Monday, I gave her food and asked her to study," she told Hindustan Times.

The girl, however, told her that she knew everything for the next paper and asked if she could go out to play. Her mother allowed her and herself left for work. Whe...