Bijnor, March 6: The police had arrested a 19-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor district for allegedly slitting the throat of a five-year-old girl to stop her from crying when he tried to rape her, police said.

Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), Praveen Ranjan Singh, said that children flying kites spotted the girl's body in a dilapidated building and informed the police.

Acting on a tip-off, police picked up Aman Khan and during interrogation, he confessed to his crime, Singh said. The accused told the police he knew the girl's family and used to visit her house. Calcutta High Court Acquits Man Charged With Rape on Pretext of Marriage, Says Woman Consented to Sex As She Was in Love.

On the day of the incident, Khan took her to the ruined building and tried to rape her. As the girl tried to scream, the accused slit her throat using a knife, the police officer said.

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