The police have booked Thakur under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Child from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act
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On August 7, the police spotted the tenant in the locality and picked him up. After recording his confessional statement, he was arrested, the SSP said. The accused - Davendra Thakur, a resident of Agra - worked as a driver for Ola and Uber cabs owned by a Baghpat resident. His wife had gone to her parents about 15 days ago.
He told the police that on August 2, consumed liquor and watched porn videos on his mobile phone. In the meantime, the child came to his room. On seeing the child, he tried raping her. But when she started crying loudly, he killed her by strangulating and wrapped the body in the bag, SSP Krishna said. For two days, he remained with her parents, pretending to help them trace the child. But on August 3, he went to stay somewhere in Delhi.
The police have booked Thakur under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Child from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Krishna said the child was an LKG student of a school in Khoda. Her father Mukesh works in a private company in Noida.
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