Man charged of necrophilia arrested

PTI, 16 January 2010, 07:15pm IST

MUMBAI: The city police have arrested a 24-year-old man from suburban Chembur, accused of necrophilia.

The accused Nagesh Gholap an alleged necrophiliac was arrested on Wednesday for murdering and raping a 14-year-old girl.

According to the RCF police, the girl went missing on January 4 when she had stepped out of her house to buy medicines from a nearby shop, from where she was lured by Nagesh, who took her to his house.

Nagesh on Friday admitted to have murdered the girl first and then raping her, a senior police official said.

"During his interrogation, the accused has said that he first drowned the girl in a water tub and then assaulted her with a rod so that she does not scream for help. After that he raped her," the official said.

Nagesh then smashed the victim's face and stuffed her body into a sack and left it in an empty flat in the same building.

The body was recovered by police on January 5, after neighbours complained of a stench emanating from the flat.

Police say it was the gunny bag in which the victim's body was stuffed that led them to Nagesh. "We found several vegetable pieces stuck to the gunny sack and investigations revealed that the flat was owned by Nagesh's mother, who used to store vegetables there," the official said.

Gholap has been booked for murder and rape and is in police custody till January 22.

From: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Man-charged-of-necrophilia-arrested/articleshow/5453462.cms