Thiruvananthapuram: Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD) Veena George on Monday informed that the department has sanctioned an immediate relief grant of Rs 1 lakh to the family of a Bihar girl murdered in Aluva. The relief has been sanctioned under the WCD department’s relief fund scheme, meant for aiding the kin of women and children facing sexual atrocities.
The child’s family too hails from the same state. Her body was found dumped in a sack in a marshy area behind a local market in Aluva on Saturday.
The accused was arrested on Friday itself, but could not be interrogated as he was in an inebriated state, police had said.
He was remanded in judicial custody for 14 days on Sunday and the police said they will be seeking his custody for seven days when the matter would be heard by a special POCSO court on Monday.
After the incident, Congress had come down heavily on the state police and alleged lapses on their part in tracing the child.
Kerala police chief Shaik Darvesh Saheb had rejected the charges and said there were no lapses on behalf of the investigators.
The Kerala police had on Saturday posted an apology to the family of the victim on all its social media handles saying that their efforts to reunite the child with her parents proved unsuccessful.
This was criticised by opposition parties who pointed out that the police were not being paid to apologise on social media.
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