GAYA JI, July 28 -- Four days after a similar incident in Gaya Ji district, a five-year-old girl was raped and strangled to death near a village under Dobhi police station in the district on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. The parents of the girl belonging to a poor Scheduled Caste family had gone to the adjacent village for paddy plantation and she was playing outside the house when about 7pm, the accused lured her on pretext of buying her chocolates and took her to the forest department nursery near Piparghati market and raped her, police said. A search was launched after the parents returned home and the body, with a towel wrapped around the neck and profuse bleeding evident from her private part, was recovered from the nursery and police were informed at 10 pm, Dobhi SHO Mukesh Kumar said. Police rushed to the place and the prime suspect, a 14-yr-old boy was taken into custody on the basis of information provided by the victim's family and neighbours. The boy confessed to the crime and said he killed the girl after she fainted during rape, police said. SSP Anand Kumar said a case under sections 103(1) and 62(2) of Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and sections 4 and 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act was registered with Dobhi police station and the body was sent to Anugrah Narayan Magadh Medical College and Hospital (ANMMCH) at Gaya Ji for autopsy. The clothes of the accused were seized and he was sent to ANMMCH for medical examination. The forensic team was collecting evidence at the crime scene. SDPO, Sherghati-2, Sanjiv Kumar Prabhat had been directed to ensure the completion of investigation and submission of a charge-sheet in the case soon. Police would recommend speedy trial of the case to ensure severe punishment to the accused,...