The Aluva East police are gearing up to collect bank transaction details and record the statement of the accused in a case registered on a petition lodged by the family of the five-year-old migrant girl who was raped and murdered in Aluva, Kerala, in July 2023.
In their petition, the parents of the child have alleged that the accused, identified as Muneer, 50, of Choornikkara, cheated them of ₹20,000. The police had since registered a first information report (FIR) invoking charges under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property).
According to the FIR, the accused cheated the family under the pretext of arranging a rented house for them. However, he neither arranged the house nor repaid the money. It had emerged that Aluva MLA Anwar Sadath who had taken the initiative to move them to a rented house had given the accused ₹20,000 towards advance for the house. The family was not made aware of this.
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