India, July 10 -- A 25-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in Tavarekere, an area on the outskirts of Bengaluru.

Police identified the suspect as Yellappa, who worked as a carpenter.

Police said Yellappa knew the girl's family who had migrated to the state capital from Koppal district in north Karnataka about 18 months ago. On Wednesday afternoon, he turned up at the girl's house when no one else was at home - her parents and elder brother were at work and a younger brother in school - and raped her.

Before leaving, he also hit the girl on her face with a gas cylinder. The girl's elder brother found her greviously injured when he came home for lunch.

"Yellappa had been observing...