India, April 27 -- A 27-year-old man was arrested in Odisha's Ganjam district for allegedly raping and murdering his 4-year-old girl distant relative, whose body was recovered from an under-construction house on Saturday, Police said.

"The man, a distant relative of the girl who went missing on Friday evening, has been charged under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012," Ganjam superintendent of police (SP) Suvendu Patra said.

The accused had allegedly lured the girl with a chocolate and told her he was taking her to a festival in their village. "But he instead took her to an isolated place and attempted to rape her. He killed her by throttling her and then du...