India, Jan. 28 -- A 28-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly raping and killing his seven-year-old niece in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district, police said.

The uncle allegedly threw her body into a canal after raping her. "The body of the girl, who had gone missing on Sunday, was recovered from the Indira Sagar canal on Monday," Barwani Superintendent of Police (SP) Jagdish Dawar said.

According to the postmortem report, she had been raped before being thrown into the canal. "There were severe injury marks on her body. It appears she may have been unconscious when she was thrown in, and she ultimately died due to drowning," an officer said.

Police said the girl was last seen with her uncle, who initially misled investiga...