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Bengaluru: A six-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and murdered at a migrant colony at Pattandur Agrahara in Whitefield in east Bengaluru, officials said on Wednesday.
The deceased belonged to a family of migrant labourers from West Bengal.
According to the police, the girl's father, Injamul Sheikh, lodged a complaint on January 6 that she was missing since the afternoon of January 5 and he suspected Yusuf Meer, another migrant labourer from West Bengal, who lived near them, was behind the offence.
Both the victim's family and the suspect engaged in daily wage and rag-picking work, police sources told DH.
The body of the girl was found later in a dry canal in the vicinity.
"The suspect is at larger and a search is on to trace him. Prima facie it is suspected that the juvenile was strangled to death. No evident signs of sexual assault were found. A post-mortem report is awaited," a senior officer told DH.
The suspect will be charged with kidnapping and murder, the officer added.