India, Feb. 20 -- A 24-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping, killing, and burying a three-year-old girl in a shallow pit in an empty plot near the industrial area of Gurugram's Sector 37, police said on Friday. The girl's body was recovered around 2am on Friday.

Investigators said the suspect, who is from Bihar's Supaul district, worked at a manufacturing firm. They added that he lived in the building, where the girl also resided with her parents, and would often play with her.

Gurugram Police public relations officer Sandeep Turan said that the girl was playing when the accused took her at least four kilometres away between 7pm and 7.15pm on Thursday and raped her. "Afterwards, he throttled her, dug a shallow pit, and fl...