Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested a suspected rapist-cum-killer in connection with the recovery of a four-year-old girl’s corpse from Badda on Sunday night.

The arrestee is identified as Shipon, 35, reports the UNB.

Police recovered the body of Tanha, 4, daughter of Mehedi, from inside a toilet of a tin-shed house adjacent to Abul Hotel in Adarshanagar area on Sunday evening.

Officer-in-Charge of Badda Police Station MA Jalil said that the body bore strangulation mark on its neck and injury marks on both legs.

Police sent the body to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital for autopsy, he said.

They are primarily suspecting that the girl was raped and later strangled to death, he added.

Meanwhile, briefing reporters at DMP media centre on Monday, Joint Commissioner (DB) Abdul Baten said the perpetrator reportedly raped the minor girl after alluring her with food.

The detectives started shadow investigation alongside local police station soon after the incident came to light on Sunday evening. Acting on a tip-off, a DB special team arrested Shipon from Badda area on Sunday night, he said.

Tanha had been residing at a rented house of Adarshanagar with her parents. Arrested Shipon was one of their neighbours, living in a rented room with his wife.

Shipon had been working as a day labourer, since recently being released from jail after five years. When Tanha was returning home on Thursday crossing Shipon’s room, he pulled Tanha inside his room alluring her with food, and then he allegedly raped her, Joint Commissioner DB said.

As Tanha cried out for help, Shipon strangled her, and after the girl died, fled the scene throwing the body of Tanha into a toilet of the house, he said.

Mehedi, the father of the ill-fated girl filed a case with Badda police station accusing the arrested Shipon, said Abdul Jalil, the OC of the police station.