India, April 8 -- A 20-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping, raping, and murdering a 10-year-old girl by slitting her throat before throwing her body from the bathroom window of his house in Maharashtra's Thane, police said on Tuesday.

The crime occurred on the night of April 7, news agency PTI quoted police as saying.

The accused allegedly lured the victim, who resided in a nearby building, by offering her toys, took her to his house on the sixth floor of a residential building in Thane's Samrat Nagar where he raped her and then slit her throat with a sharp weapon.

After that, he took the girl's body to the bathroom of his house and pushed it from an open window there, PTI quoted the official. A police probe team ch...