The Navi Mumbai police today claimed to have solved the case of abduction and murder of an eight years old girl with the arrest of a man who is related to her.
The accused was identified as Clarance Fonceca, resident of Mira Road area.
DCP Sahanji Umpa said Fonceca was the husband of victim's aunt.
The girl studied in standard third at New Horizon School of Airoli. According to police, the girl's mother had given a tongue-lashing to Fonceca during a quarrel recently, and he wanted to take revenge.
Last week he abducted the girl, Franshela Sophia Fransisco Vaz, as she got down from her school bus. He asked her to get into his car, telling her that he had come to take her to his house in Mira Road as her mother too was there.
But he strangled the girl on the Ghodbunder road, removed her uniform and school batch, and dumped the body, police said.
Police had formed as many as 11 teams to find the girl. They zeroed in on Fonceca after suspecting that someone known to the family could be involved.
He confessed to the crime last night during interrogation, the DCP said. He also showed the police where he had dumped the girl after murder. The body was found in a decomposed state.
