India, April 30 -- A 30-year-old man released on bail in an attempted rape case on Tuesday killed the woman who had filed the police complaint for trying to rape a minor in 2023, police said.

Police said the suspect, Mukha Basumatary, who was previously in jail for trying to rape a minor girl, was arrested for murder in Assam's Chirang district on Wednesday morning.

Chirang superintendent of police (SP) Akshat Garg said the accused was being interrogated. "The body has been sent for postmortem and our officials have collected some important evidence," he said.

Mukha Basumatary had been arrested earlier this year under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act in connection with a 2023 case registered in connection wit...