New Delhi: A 14- month old child was reportedly raped and murdered in North Tripura’s Panisagar region, Police said on Sunday. A s per sources, Jaynal Uddin her maternal grandfather, a daily wage labourer, has been arrested from Nilambazar in Assam.

“The alleged rape took place on Saturday, following which she was murdered and buried in a paddy field in the area”, said officer in charge of Panisagar police station, Sumanta Bhattacharjee, in a PTI report.

The daily wager took the child from the mother with an excuse of outing, he said. “Since he did not return the child back to her mother after three hours, the parents became anxious. As the new spread, hundreds of villagers started searching for the child,” the officer said. “Her body was found buried in a pady field,” he added.

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