Kochi: The Special Investigation team probing the brutal murder of a five-year-old girl in Aluva submitted the chargesheet in the case on Friday.
The 800-page-chargesheet, prepared by Rural SP Vivek Kumar and Inspector MM Manjudas, was submitted to the court just 35 days after the crime.
According to the chargesheet, the accused Asfaq Alam murdered the child to destroy evidence. On the day of the murder, Alam fed child with juice spiked with alcohol before sexually abusing her. The accused feared that the child who fell unconscious during unnatural sex would report the crime on regaining consciouness.
The accused has been booked for 9 offences under various sections of the Indian Penal Code. Along abduction, unnatural sexual offence and murder charges, police have slapped charges under the POCSO act on the accused. According to the police, there are 62 pieces of evidence and 99 witnesses in the chargesheet.
During the investigation, the police had discovered that Alam was a serial offender and that he had a POCSO case registered against him in Delhi.
The girl, the child of a migrant couple from Bihar, who went missing on July 28 was found murdered in an abandoned area near Aluva market on July 29. Asfaq Alam, the man who abducted the child, confessed to sexually abusing and killing her. The accused hit the child's head with a stone; there were injuries on the genitals of the child, the autopsy stated.
